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From: shap@bunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: greyscale pictures to wallpaper ?
Message-ID: <13206@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 90 12:32:55 GMT
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Reply-To: shap@clunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
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In article <1569@abvax.UUCP> harmon@odin.icd.ab.com (Larry D. Harmon) writes:
] Is the spec for bmps available or prehaps a program that will
] save the current screen as a bmp?

There are lots of programs that will save the current VGA image to a
.PCX file.  FRIEZE from the PC Paintbrush package is the one I use.
Then, use the PAINT program that comes with WIN3 to read it in as .PCX
and write it out as .BMP.

Alternatively, the format for .pcx is published and available from Z-Soft,
who make PBRUSH for microsoft.  If you want, drop me some e-mail and I will
send that in return.

The grey scale is a twist -- unless you are running windows with the video
card in grey scale mode all the time, the best you can hope for is b/w with
the dots spaced so as to approximate grey scale.  This may not be true of certain Super VGA cards.

Anyway, good luck -- and maybe you wouldn't mind sharing your wallpaper with
the net??
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