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- From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
- Subject: Wallpaper, more
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:21:38 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec28.205850.28508@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec28.205850.28508@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu> perlman@smtc00.engr.scarolina.edu writes:
- >Using Deskscan on the PC, I can write any of several
- >picture formats, such as Windows BMP, tif, and others.
- >Which DOS format will translate (and how) into an AIX
- >picture file format? Can I transfer it to the RS6000
- >with dosread -a?
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- You should use dosread without the "-a" as the formats you mentioned
- are binary.
-
- >Among the suggestions for displaying were xsetroot, xv,
- >xview and xloadimage. I think xsetroot is really the one
- >I want, but when I used it to try to display an image
- >created in MS -Windows BMP it told me *bad bitmap file
- >format*.
-
- You really want xv or xloadimage (these are in the contrib section of
- the X11 distribution tapes from MIT or anonymous FTP'able from
- export.lcs.mit.edu) if you want color images... xv handles TIFF (*.TIF
- in the DOS world) directly, at least.
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