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Re: GIF to BMP?

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From: Lee Monai (ANALEX)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 20:44
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In article <8750006@hpspkla.spk.hp.com>, town@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Brian R. Town) writes...
>ao@elixir.lne.kth.se (Anders Ohlsson) writes:
> 
>>	Does anyone know of a program to convert 640x480x256 GIFs to
>>	BMPs, so that they can be used as wallpaper in Windows 3.0?
> 
>I have been playing with 'wingif' (I think I got it from cica).  It allows
>you to display them, convert them to BMP and even do 16 color dithers as well
>as scaling (and maybe other things I cannot remember off hand).
> 
>Brian Town

WINGIF will also display GIF images in 800x600 256 Color Mode.  They look
great except they are UPSIDE DOWN!  Convert to BMP and the images are right
side up.

Anybody know why this is happening?

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From: tpmonai@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Lee Monai (ANALEX))
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Subject: Re: GIF to BMP?
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Date: 22 Mar 91 20:44:08 GMT
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