[Kde-games-devel] ksnape has binary data

[Ian Wadham]

On 22/03/2012, at 12:41 PM, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2012, 11:52:15 schrieb Ian Wadham:
>> I suggest the binary might be the GIF format of the same picture as
>> is in the XPM, so I would say delete it.
> 
> I searched again and I found this page:
> 
> http://www.trilon.com/xv/downloads.html
> 
> saying:
> Patch to fix XPM file output errors 
> By cleverly harnessing the amazing power of a missing 'break' statement, xv 
> was writing XPM files with a FITS version of the image conveniently tacked on 
> the end. Hilarity ensues. 
> 
> So it is not GIF but FITS (never heard that before). I checked the xv source
> code, everything after the }; actually is FITS output.
> 
> And if I remove the XPM part from Bark.xpm gimp does open this as
> a FITS image file.
> 
> So now I feel confident we can remove those binary parts - I will write
> a git filter-branch for that

Ah good!  Mystery solved.  You should have been an archaeologist, Wolfgang!

Cheers, Ian W.