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    BMP

    Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:36 pm
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    The standard bit-mapped graphics format used in the Windows environment. By convention, graphics files in the BMP format end with a.BMP extension.

    BMP files store graphics in a format called device-independent bitmap (DIB).

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