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- From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
- Subject: Re: 256 colors in background???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.181106.215@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov19.181442.27125@midway.uchicago.edu> <BxzCBz.JMC@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Nov21.014929.21430@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:11:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.014929.21430@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <BxzCBz.JMC@acsu.buffalo.edu> vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (David A. Vohwinkel) writes:
- >>>Try the "BGA" screen backgrounds, available via anonymous ftp from
- >>>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. If those work, you've got 256 colors.
- >>Does anyone know a program that converts from .Gif to BGA in 256 colors???
- >
- >Galleria might, since it was written for OS/2. I'll make sure it gets
- >to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in due course (if it isn't there already).
- >
- It might, except that the shareware release is CRIPPLEWARE and doesn't save
- jack sh*t. In it's present incarnation, the program is worth nothing, and
- I refuse to pay for something that I am not sure will work. So I removed
- it from my hard drive pending a non-crippled release or a different program.
-
- (I would have uled it to Hobbes for you all, but I had deleted it already...)
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