Converting program for mgetty faxes

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Hi,

Erik Corry wrote:
> > is there anything to prepend a proper TIFF header to the raw g3 file
> > without having to process it  through the above pipe ?
> 
> That would be a bad idea. g3topbm will clean up incorrect
> comression data caused by transmission errors. Your
> TIFF-reading programs may not be able to handle those
> errors.

There's a flag in TIFF/F to signal "this might be corrupt G3 data".  It's
there especially for that case... - so a program that claims TIFF/F
compatibility should be able to handle it.

gert
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