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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Background images
- Keywords: image background
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.155053.24695@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:50:53 GMT
- References: <cfpdea.6@pnv.dsir.govt.nz>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <cfpdea.6@pnv.dsir.govt.nz> news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) writes:
- >I love the background option for the desktop (image wise) and don't care if
- >the system has to update it every time I move a folder.
-
- And did you know that each individual folder can have its own
- background bitmap?
-
- >Anyway, being a Dos & windows man before, I am wondering what format the
- >background requires (e.g. the Lighthouse image as supplied) and how does one
- >convert GIF (PCX etc) to this format.
-
- Either Windows BMP or OS/2 BMP format, I believe.
-
- Conversion utilities are available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, I believe. Look for such utilities as cvtbmp, for
- example.
-
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