From: Hartmut Niemann <niemann@cip.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:01:41 +0200 (MESZ)

Re: GT_2BIT?

Geert wrote:
> Even if you know that you have an 8 bpp screen, how do you know that it's
> packed, bitplanes, interleaved bitplanes? And then I'm not talking about
> endianness (e.g. packed 4 bpp is 2 pixels in 1 byte: AB or BA?).
This is (AFAIK) wat the subscheme is for. The user will most probably
not care about it, the libggi uses it to differentiate between different
memory layouts.
> 

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