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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Questions: Background Bitmap
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:22:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.022226.10850@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <16852@umd5.umd.edu>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <16852@umd5.umd.edu> adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:
- > I found a really nice GIF that I decided to use as my background, so I
- > loaded into WinGIF and saved it as a BMP (and converted it from 256 colors
- > to 256 grayscale since it looks cooler in B&W...very chic). Anyway,
- > ever since installing this thing as my background, my sapfile has
- > started growing IMMENSELY. I used to stick around 5120k (under the
- > service pack) and it used to shrink down back to 5120 or so if it ever
- > grew too far, but if I use the picture as my background, the swapper
- > gets up to 13 or 14 megs after a while and there doesn't seem to be
- > any reason why...and it doesn't come down.
- >
- > The BMP file is only 500k long, so I thought at worst, I'd have 500k more
- > of memory being thrown around...but it seems like this 500k increases
- > EVERY TIME the screen is switched to full screen anything and back again.
- > It seems like OS/2 is actually placing multiple copies of the bmp in
- > memory and then forgetting to deallocate the space when it is supposed
- > to.
- >
- > Can anyone confirm this, or offer some explanation, or anything?
- >
-
- Windows bmps are not the same as PM bmps (or so I have been told). I have a
- program - from hobbes - called GIF2BMP. It converts GIF files into PM bitmaps.
- The is also a program that converts Windows bitmaps into PM bitmaps....but I
- forget what it's called.
-
- Steve
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