> i understand the .pal format, its quite easy thankfully. now i moved onto .shp files. i can read the header fine(NumImages,A,B,Width,Height,C), but when it comes to the offeset array, i have a problem. the format for the offsets are [Offest,RefOffset], and the format for Offset is [Offet,format]. can someone explain to me how to read these things?, i tried reading the file byte by byte, but i dont think that is how i am supposed to go about this.

Sorry, I've no clue what you're on about. Consider asking here:

http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=102

meselfs himself!