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From: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 and Bitmaps
Keywords: Windows, Bitmaps, Format
Message-ID: <7676@fy.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 90 20:47:59 GMT
References: <5301@uceng.UC.EDU> <22886@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <22886@boulder.Colorado.EDU> wallwey@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM) writes:
>warning windows gives you when you try to run it.)  GCP allows you to
>load in GIF pictures and then save them in a couple of formats.  I save
>the loaded picture in the PCX format.  At that point I run PaintBrush
>that came with windows and load the PCX picture.  From PaintBrush you
>can save the picture in BMP format.  If you save the BMP picture in your
>Windows' directory, you can use it as the 'wallpaper' background. I have
>had good luck so far using this setup! 

Sheeeze!  Why does everyone save to PCX when all they want to do is get the
GIF into PaintBrush?  Come on folks, USE THE CLIPBOARD.  The power of the
windows environment includes the (almost) seamless ability to share data
via the clipboard.  (I was sold on this when I used windows 1.4(!), windows
Write and Twin spreadsheet, to build a rather spiffy report for one of my
compsci masters courses.)

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