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Re: GIFs on DECwindows?

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From: pawlak
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:59
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In article <1993Jan22.230443.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu>, fairfield@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu writes:
> 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 ;-)
> -- 

Well, you guessed wrong... ;-)
MOTIFGIF is a motif file selector that spawns aforementioned PICT to do
the job...

Michal (pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de)
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