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Re: Display Tiff Images as a background screen

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From: Rasmussen Tristen J
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 07:10
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john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken) writes:

>In article <1992Aug13.162639.14839@news.media.mit.edu> pan@dearth.media.mit.edu  
>(Howard Pan) writes:
>> In article <1992Aug13.152351.27591@almserv.uucp> gramdeen@aristotle  
>> (Gerald Ramdeen) writes:
>> > Can anyone tell me how to take a tiff image and make it my default  
>> screen   image background.
>> 
>> Get Background2 from sonata.cc.purdue.edu. I think it's in  
>> /put/next/2.0-release/binaries. It's a freeware, if I'm not mistaken.
>> --
>
>Actually, it's in the /pub/next/2.0-release/source directory.
>
>-- 
> John McCracken                   White Computers
> john@nextdoor.com                  Can't Jump
> NeXTMail welcome

Unless I am mistaken, Background2 in the source directory needs to be
compiled.  Is there a version that doesn't need to be compiled for those
of use who have the limited version of NeXTSTEP? (ie., I don't have the
C compiler)

Tristen.
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