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Re: converting GIF ---===> BMP

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From: Larry Salomon Jr.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:14
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In <1993Jan28.091157.27539@abo.fi> PNIELSEN@FINABO.ABO.FI (Peter Nielsen) writes:

>In <63702@mimsy.umd.edu> pr@umiacs.umd.edu writes:

>> Does anyone know the format for an OS/2 2.0 bitmap?  I would like to port xv 
>> so that it will read and write OS/2 2.0 bitmaps.

>It is exactly the same format as the Windows 3.0 bitmap format. The format
>specs can be found in the Windows programming ref.

I beg to differ.  The OS/2 2.0 bitmap format is *NOT* the same as the Windows
3.0 bitmap format.  The former is a superset of the latter.

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Q
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