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From: clay@claris.com (Clay A. Maeckel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: Newer version of DeskPict?
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Date: 3 Jun 91 18:37:22 GMT
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gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Nathan Gasser) writes:
>I will not mail anyone ColorDesk until I am sure it's free/shareware.  If
>anyone has information about it, please mail/post it.  If it's commercial, 
>I want to know where to buy it.

Both ColorDesk (part of the Screen Gems package from MicroSeed) and DeskPicture
(part of the Now Utilties package from Now Software) are both commercial
products and should not be distributed freely. I believe that an early beta
version of ColorDesk once made the rounds on the net but it was never supposed
to be release like that.

DeskPICT does have the problems with icon redrawing and it also crashes with
some 32-bit displays. I'm still amazed that what I wrote in 1987 is still
working. DeskPicture is the commercial version of DeskPICT and unfortunely
the 2.0.3 version has the same icon redraw problem as DeskPICT. That has
been fixed in the soon-to-be released version 3.0 of Now Utilties. Also I have
redone the interface again to allow multiple pictures on the desktop and can
read in any graphic file formats that you may have XTND filters for.

Hope this helps a bit,
--Clay

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