Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!umriscc!mcs213f.cs.umr.edu!mcastle From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle (Nexus)) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Where is GIF2BMP.EXE located? Message-ID: <1756@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> Date: 27 Nov 90 23:38:44 GMT References: <8012@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Sender: news@umriscc.isc.umr.edu Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla Lines: 34 In article <8012@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> tuck@iris.ucdavis.edu (Devon Tuck) writes: >Can anyone tell me where to find a program called GIF2BMP which converts >gif files to Microsoft's bmp format? Found at Simtel20 in Some sort of printscreen/alt-printscreent/shift-printscreen should dump it to the clipboard if you're viewing with a standard gif viewer, and running in 386 enhanced mode. Not sure if this traps the color though. Ooppss... in reading more carefully the manual on page 58, it says this will not work for non-Windows apps running in graphics mode. Sorry about that... > >I need this to convert my gif files so I can load them into MS Windows. >Incidentally, what is the best way to get a .bmp file loaded as the "root" >pattern of MS Windows? Looking in the manual (you have the manual, don't you?), on the subject of 'Choosing Desktop Options,' go to the Control Panel, choose the Desktop icon. In the Desktop dialog box, click on the down arrow in the Wallpaper box. This will list a bunch of .bmp files that you can select from. Or you can just type in the full path name the the file if it's not in your windows directory. This starts on page 152 of the manual. > >Thanks in advance, > Devon Tuck -- Mike Castle (Nexus) S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU (preferred) | ERROR: Invalid mcastle@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (unix mail-YEACH!)| command 'HELP' Life is like a clock: You can work constantly, and be right | try 'HELP' all the time, or not work at all, and be right twice a day. |