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From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Upgrade showanim for FFS compatibility
Message-ID: <1503@percival.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 16:51:31 GMT
References: <8121@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Oregon Assylum for Low Level IFF Hackers.
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In article <8121@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> mplevine@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Marshall Polimer Levine) writes:
>showanim does not work properly; garbage appears
>all over the animations.  This even happens when I run the animations on a
>partition with the normal file system.  It seems that if FFS is even in memory,
>showamin freaks out.  Can someone tell me where and how I can get a new 
>version that will work with the fast file system?

You can use a program called Display from Hash Enterprises to show ANIM
files.  It's Public Domain, and is available on PeopleLink, and most
reputable local BBSs.  You might also try the Play program that comes
with Delexe Paint III.  BTW, Display and Play allow you to run from an
icon and exit properly.  
   I've been hearing about problems with reading and writing ANIMs across
FFS partitions.  I'm going to be looking into this more.  If anyone knows
what causes this, and how to fix it, I'd really like to know.  

Hope this helps.

>
>-- Marshall Levine
>mplevine@phoenix.princeton.edu

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