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Subject: Re: Amancio's tv program with capture! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:27:42 MST."
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 23:00:01 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > BTW, the server doesn't use pixmaps with the shared memory extension.
> > It uses XImages.
> 
> You can't avoid having to do the conversion.

I understand that - I simply wanted to make the point that it wasn't
pixmap information being "wired", but XImage information.  Check the
X11 protocol spec - there's a predefined low-level data type for
XImages (and Pixmaps are only passed by integer ID anyway).

					Jordan