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- From: pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de
- Subject: Re: GIFs on DECwindows?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.175952.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
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- References: <1jn26aINNfnu@access.usask.ca> <1993Jan22.000555.5956@ais.com> <22JAN199321334017@eql.caltech.edu> <1993Jan22.230443.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:59:52 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan22.230443.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu>, fairfield@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu writes:
- > In article <22JAN199321334017@eql.caltech.edu>, rankin@eql.caltech.edu (Pat Rankin) writes:
- >> In article <1993Jan22.000555.5956@ais.com>,\
- >> bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes...
- >>> If it's VMS, there is a primitive GIF viewer in DECW$EXAMPLES named
- >>> PICT.EXE -- you use it by defining a symbol:
- >>> $ pict :== $decw$examples:pict
- >>> $ pict filename.gif
- >>
- >> That must be included with the Motif version of DECwindows. It's not
- >> part of the "vanilla" version, which lots of folks are still running.
- >>
- >> Pat Rankin, rankin@eql.caltech.edu
- >
- > Yes, it is in the DECwindows/Motif. Installed Motif V1.1 yesterday,
- > and find there's also a SYS$EXAMPLES:MOTIFGIF.EXE! Don't know what it does,
- > but it's not hard to guess ;-)
- > --
-
- Well, you guessed wrong... ;-)
- MOTIFGIF is a motif file selector that spawns aforementioned PICT to do
- the job...
-
- Michal (pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de)
-