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From: mr@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Using GIF`s as wallpaper
Message-ID: <mr.645293735@cica>
Date: 13 Jun 90 16:15:35 GMT
References: <1990Jun12.222700.2270@sj.ate.slb.com>
Organization: Center for Innov. Comp. Appl., Bloomington, IN
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In <1990Jun12.222700.2270@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ
Poffenberger) writes: 

>I have come across a way to load GIF's as your desktop wallpaper in Windows
>3.0. Basically you need a .BMP file to do this, which can be converted using
>a couple of utilities.

>GCP 4.2 (available from compuserve or other ftp sites) can convert a GIF to
>PC paintbrush .PCX files. From this point you can use Windows Paintbrush to
>load the .PCX file and save as .BMP file.

gcp42s.arc is available via anonymous ftp from cica.cica.indiana.edu
[129.79.20.22] in ~ftp/pub/pc/win3.

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michael regoli
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