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From: ezk@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Erez "HWank1" Zadok)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Converting GIF to BMP problems
Keywords: GIF, BMP
Message-ID: <1990Jul15.072246.9299@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 15 Jul 90 07:22:46 GMT
Reply-To: ezk@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Erez "HWank1" Zadok)
Organization: Columbia University Center for Computing Activities
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The only way I found to convert GIF files to BMPs is by first using one of
the many converters from GIF to PCX and then to read the PCX file from
pbrush and save it as BMP.  But I have a few problems.

(1) Isn't there a utility that would do the conversion directly?

(2) When I finally get to use the BMP file as my background for windows, it
only fills a small portion of my screen.  Some of the GIF->PCX utilities
have a way to stretch the picture and display it to exactly fill the screen
(of course sarificing resolution.)  Is there a way to take a single GIF/BMP
file and make it fill the whole of my windows background?

Erez.
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