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Re: GIF to BMP?

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From: Antony Chan
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 19:50
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tpmonai@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Lee Monai (ANALEX)) writes:

>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?

are you sure they're being displayed upside-down?  i have been
playing with wingif some, and i noticed that as they're loading
they're displayed upside-down, but when they're done loading
wingif flips them back to the proper orientation.
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From: antonyc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Antony Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: GIF to BMP?
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.195045.12709@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 91 19:50:45 GMT
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