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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

Writing nul character to file

Hi! I'm currently developing a small test bench where a bitmap file is read (using std.textio.all). I have managed to read the bmp file and I can write all characters to a new bmp file except 0...
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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

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irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/) supports PPM, both for reading and writing. In supports batch conversions and can be used from the command line so (in theory) it could be integrated in an automatic testbench script.

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This is great, until someone else checks out the project after you've left the company and you didnt leave any information about how to view files.

Bitmaps are just natively supported everywhere.