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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: converting GIF ---===> BMP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.205217.3077@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University, New York
- References: <C1E44w.2q4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <Xk32XB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> <1993Jan28.164029.22888@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:52:17 GMT
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- No, IMSHOW does not work right....
- 2.1b
- IMSHOW looks like someone scribbled with crayon in all the wrong colors.
- Also, after exiting, the desktop colors don't switch back to the original!
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- In article <1993Jan28.164029.22888@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <Xk32XB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> pcadoret@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Peter Cadoret) writes:
- >>` >What I'm trying to do is make a BMP for the background of OS/2.
- >>` >Does anyone have any suggestions?
- >>` >If so, my E-Mail address is "Nsorathia@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu"
- >>` Ditto. Where does one pick up a program that does such a conversion?
- >> Try WinJPEG..... it's slow, but it's the only one I've found
- >>that converts the colours correctly........And I have yet to find a OS/2
- >>.GIF viewer which displays pictures correctly with my 256 colour
- >>drivers....The background screen displays them fine, so it ain't a
- >>problem with the drivers......Anyone have a suggestion?
- >
- >Does IMShow work for you?
- >
- >Stay tuned, though -- there's a terrific new GIF viewer now in beta
- >testing. Multithreaded, even.
- >
- >--
- >Timothy F. Sipples | READ the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from
- >sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
- >Dept. of Econ., Univ. | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
- >of Chicago, 60637 | [Post to ONE newsgroup only AFTER reading the List.]
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