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Windows Bitmap

Quick Info

The Bitmap Format is one of the most commonly used image formats in the Windows environment. In most cases, the image data is stored uncompressed, so the resulting files are very big. Although the data can be compressed, older programs don't use this feature. Since Windows 95-Paint now writes compressed files, they will probably become more popular soon. Bitmap files can be read and written by almost every image processing tool running under Windows.

Quick Info:

Name: Windows Bitmap
Type: Image
Extension: BMP (sometimes RLE for compressed images)
Viewer Application: Paintbrush or others
Specification:
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/2d/BMP.txt
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