function [info, msg] = imrasinfo(filename)
%IMRASINFO Get information about the image in a RAS file.
%
%   [INFO, MSG] = IMRASINFO(FILENAME) returns information about the image
%   contained in a RAS file.  If an error occurs, INFO will be empty and an
%   error message is returned in MSG, otherwise MSG is empty.
%
%   See also IMREAD, IMWRITE, IMFINFO.

%   A complete official specification for the RAS (Sun Raster) image format
%   does not seem to have been made publicly available.	 As sources for the
%   RAS image format I have used
%
%     * /usr/include/rasterfile.h of the Sun OS
%     * The rasterfile(4) man page of the Sun OS
%     * The files libpnm4.c, rasttopnm.c, and pnmtorast.c in the NetPBM 8.3
%	distribution
%     * "Inside SUN Rasterfile", a note by Jamie Zawinski
%      <jwz@teak.berkeley.edu> containing an excerpt from "Sun-Spots
%      Digest", Volume 6, Issue 84.
%
% Author:	  Peter J. Acklam
% E-mail:	  pjacklam@online.no

%  Copyright 2001-2002 The MathWorks, Inc.
%  $Revision: 1.1.6.2 $  $Date: 2004/02/01 22:04:34 $

   % Initialize output arguments.
   info = [];
   msg	= '';

   % See if file name is a non-empty string.
   if ~ischar(filename) || isempty(filename)
      msg = 'File name must be a non-empty string';
      info = [];
      return
   end

   % See if the file exists.
   if exist(filename, 'file') ~= 2
      msg = 'File does not exist.';
      info = [];
      return
   end

   % Try to open the file for reading.
   [fid, fopen_msg] = fopen(filename, 'rb', 'ieee-be');
   if fid < 0
      msg = fopen_msg;
      return
   end

   filename = fopen(fid);		% get the full path name
   fileinfo = dir(filename);		% read file information

   % Initialize universal structure fields to fix the order.
   info.Filename	= filename;
   info.FileModDate	= fileinfo.date;
   info.FileSize	= fileinfo.bytes;
   info.Format		= 'RAS';
   info.FormatVersion	= [];
   info.Width		= [];
   info.Height		= [];
   info.BitDepth	= [];
   info.ColorType	= '';
   info.FormatSignature = [];

   % Initialize RAS-specific structure fields to fix the order.
   info.Length	  = [];
   info.Type	  = [];
   info.MapType	  = [];
   info.MapLength = [];

   % magic number
   info.FormatSignature = fread(fid, 1, 'uint32');

   % width (pixels) of image
   info.Width		= fread(fid, 1, 'uint32');

   % height (pixels) of image
   info.Height		= fread(fid, 1, 'uint32');

   % depth (1, 8, 24, or 32 bits) pr pixel
   info.BitDepth	= fread(fid, 1, 'uint32');

   % length (in bytes) of image
   info.Length		= fread(fid, 1, 'uint32');

   % type of file; see READRAS for details.
   info.Type		= fread(fid, 1, 'uint32');

   % type of colormap; see READRAS for details.
   info.MapType		= fread(fid, 1, 'uint32');

   % length (bytes) of following map
   info.MapLength	= fread(fid, 1, 'uint32');

   % see if we got the whole header
   if isempty(info.MapLength)
      info = [];
      msg = 'Truncated header';
      fclose(fid);
      return;
   end

   % we have got what we need from the file, so close it
   fclose(fid);

   % get the color type
   if info.MapLength
      info.ColorType = 'indexed';
   elseif info.BitDepth == 1
      info.ColorType = 'grayscale';
   else
      info.ColorType = 'truecolor';
   end