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From: mikew@athena.mit.edu (Michael B Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: background picture in Windows?
Keywords: background picture
Message-ID: <1990Mar22.234356.12309@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 90 23:43:56 GMT
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!In article <90Mar20.185925est.10496@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>,
green@ai.toronto.edu (Anthony !Thomas Green) writes:
!> In article <2568@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca> rossp@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca (Ross
PORTER) writes:
!> >Does anyone know of a program that displays a picture (.pcx or whatever)
!> >(rather than a pattern) as the background (a.l.a. Mac) in Windows? 
!> 
!> This is impossible to do with the current release of Windows.
!> 

It must be possible, because I've seen it done before.  I think the guy used
one of the hDC utilities, perhaps hDC Windows Manager.

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