Re: xpm slow?

["Rupert G. Goldie" <rgg@aaii.oz.au>]

>  It shouldn't be too difficult to write a simple program that does
> use the Xpm functions to read each xpm file, and then copy it onto the
> montage pixmap, load another.  Then, when that set of 500 (or whatever)
> has been loaded, use one of the Xpm functions to save it.
> 
>  Plus, the code for crossfire to load it would be a lot like the creation
> code, just in reverse.
> 
>  --Mark
> 

You could hack something from the PBM library as it has programs to do 
exactly the kind of thing you want here. In fact with xpmtoppm and ppmtoxpm
you don't need to code anything just pipe stuff to the appropriate program
(pnmcat ?)

Rupert