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- From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: Kill, DpaintIII questions
- Summary: No, save as brush.
- Message-ID: <3116@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 02:39:15 GMT
- References: <14153@chalmers.se>
- Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA
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- In article <14153@chalmers.se> olof@tfd.chalmers.se (olof daunius) writes:
- >A couple of questions from a new Amiga user:
- >Does AmigaDOS have a command corresponding to unix kill(1), to shut down
- >background processes?
-
- This is a FAQ. The answer is "No". Not now, and not in the forseeable
- future.
-
- >How do you save a picture from DPaintIII in a specified size?
- >I have a program who wants DpaintIII pic's 52 pixels wide and
- >13 high.
-
- Save it as a brush. Deluxe Paint does not allow a picture to be smaller
- than 320x200, but a brush can be any size. It has one more bitplane than
- a regular picture (which defines the outline of a nonrectangular brush),
- but other than that a brush is just another ILBM picture.
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