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+The Utah Raster toolkit is a collection of programs and C routines for
+dealing with raster images commonly encountered in computer graphics. It
+provides the following major functions:
+
+ * A device and system independent image format for storing images
+ and information about them. Called the RLE format, it uses
+ run length encoding to reduce storage space for most images.
+
+ * A library of C routines for reading, writing and manipulating
+ images stored in the RLE format.
+
+ * A collections of programs for manipulating and displaying RLE
+ images.