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Re: GIFs on DECwindows?

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From: fairfield
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:04
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In article <22JAN199321334017@eql.caltech.edu>, rankin@eql.caltech.edu (Pat Rankin) writes:
> In article <1993Jan22.000555.5956@ais.com>,\
>  bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes...
>> If it's VMS, there is a primitive GIF viewer in DECW$EXAMPLES named
>> PICT.EXE -- you use it by defining a symbol:
>>	$ pict :== $decw$examples:pict
>>	$ pict filename.gif
> 
>      That must be included with the Motif version of DECwindows.  It's not
> part of the "vanilla" version, which lots of folks are still running.
> 
> 		Pat Rankin, rankin@eql.caltech.edu

    Yes, it is in the DECwindows/Motif.  Installed Motif V1.1 yesterday, 
and find there's also a SYS$EXAMPLES:MOTIFGIF.EXE!  Don't know what it does, 
but it's not hard to guess ;-)
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