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RandBMP - Jeffrey S. Morley
U.S. Sprint Corporation
April 10, 1990
Public Domain
This little program will allow you to have a random .BMP file used as the
background in MicroSoft Windows 3.0 each time you start Windows. To use:
Create a text file with any plain ASCII editor containing the name of
the .BMP files you wish to select from. The file must be called BMP.LST,
and must be in the following format:
C:\WINDOWS\ASTRO.BMP
C:\WINDOWS\CHEETAH.BMP
C:\WINDOWS\FROG.BMP
C:\WINDOWS\HALFDOME.BMP
C:\WINDOWS\LAKE.BMP
C:\WINDOWS\MITRE.BMP
C:\WINDOWS\NAGEL18.BMP
C:\WINDOWS\SHUTTLE2.BMP
You can replace the path with the actual path in which you keep Windows 3.0.
Place the BMP.LST file, RANDBMP.EXE and all .BMP files in your Windows
directory. You should then create a batch file to run Windows, with
the following:
@ECHO OFF
C:
CD\WINDOWS
RANDBMP
WIN
This batch file can be called anything you like. I actually renamed
my WIN.COM file to WINSTART.COM and called this batch file WIN.BAT
(replacing the line WIN with WINSTART). This caused me less confusion
in the long run.
When executed, it will copy one (at random) of your .BMP files over to a new
.BMP file called BGRD.BMP. This is the entry you should put in DeskTop
under the Control Panel program in the Main group.
Now every time you run Windows, you will be greeted by a different
background screen. Obviously, the more .BMP files you have available,
the more variety you will get.
RandBMP is written in MicroSoft QuickBasic version 4.5.