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- From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Can I display windowed GIFS?
- Message-ID: <3927@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 13:53:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.183739.22900@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Sender: news@isgtec.com
- Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
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- Paul A Prior (pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
- : As part of the maintenance of the BBS I run (Black BAg II BBS -
- : a medical BBS 614-621-8240 Call TODAY! ;) I would like to
- : be able to view GIFS while I'm typing the description of
- : them while I'm uploading them to my board (from home).
-
- : Right now, I have to run VPIC in a full screen session and
- : switch back and forth to type in the descriptions. If I try
- : to run it in a window I get desktop corruption in a big way.
- : I tried running switch notification on, but it didn't help.
-
- : Can I run such a program in a window?
-
- : I'm running a ATI Pro VESA (GW2K 66Vesa) in 8514/a mode.
-
- Try PMView. It's on hobbes as pmview.zip. It was in pub/uploads a few days ago, but may
- have been moved. It ought to be in pub/os2/new if it's not.
-
- P.S. There's also a program called pmview5b.zip, which is something else entirely. That's
- not the one you want.
-
- It displays an image in a window. It adjusts the colour palette, so the desktop colours
- look a little strange until you click in another window or the WPS background.
-
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- Ted Richards ted@isgtec.com [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
- ISG Technologies Inc. 6509 Airport Rd., Mississauga Ont. Canada L4V 1S7
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