OPTIKS COM image

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File Format
Name OPTIKS COM image
Ontology
Extension(s) .com
Released 1988

OPTIKS COM image refers to a self-displaying image format created by OPTIKS, a graphics application by Keith P. Graham. It is in the form of a DOS COM file. The format was new in OPTIKS v2.11 (1988-11-01).[1]

OPTIKS usually calls the format Self Scrolling COM file or Self Displaying COM file. The generated files contain the names OPTIKS Quick View and QVIEW.

Contents

Identification

The first 22 bytes of a file are 0xe9 0x39 0x01 0x0d 0x0a, followed by ASCII "OPTIKS Quick View".

See also

Software

  • OPTIKS (some versions; write-only)

OPTIKS typically has a free and a commercial version. Some of the free versions refuse to save to COM format. The feature seems to work in at least free version 2.18b+.

No conversion utility is known, though you could execute the file in a DOS environment and take a screenshot.

References

  1. According to the WHATS.NEW file from OPTIKS v2.15.
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