>> Are they at least doing byte-packing? I can't imagine what kind of 
>> compression they'd be doing without that at least.
>
>No.  As I said - 16-bit pixel values.  Those don't pack.
>They seem to be using packbits compression, according to the headers.
>That's just a rudimentary run-length encoding (despite the name).

Ach. That's definitely rudimentary. RLE can actually expand data under the 
wrong circumstances. 

Godfrey

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