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In computer graphics, the X Window System uses X BitMap (XBM), an ASCII text monochrome image format, for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X GUI. XBM files differ markedly from most image files in that they take the form of C source files. This means that they can be compiled directly into an application without any preprocessing steps, but it also makes them far larger than their raw pixel data would be (each byte of image data takes 5 bytes in a XBM file). XBM data typically... full article at wikipedia
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Created by Metaweb Oct 23, 2006
Last edited by mwcl_images Oct 30, 2008
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