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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Startup Screen
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Date: 13 Jul 90 17:08:39 GMT
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In article <13500017@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> resgroup@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Hi:
>
>    Thanks for all of you for telling me how to download gif files to my Mac.
>I have a new problem now.  I'd like to save a gif picture as the startup
>screen.  I saved the file as a PICT=0 file in giffer1.06.  It did come up as
>a startup screen but the color is messed up.  It looked more like a 4-bit color
>gif files instead of a 8-bit file.  Isn't it strange?  I checked the 
>StartupScreen file with giffer but it was fine.
>
>    Any ideas?

This one comes up quite often.  Your problem is that the default color table
is used at startup, and not the color table for the picture.  There are, I
believe, INITs that will load in the correct CLUT-- I don't know the names
offhand, but someone on the net should know...
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