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Subject:Re: Help - OS/2 screen captur From:Matt Ion <mion -at- DIRECT -dot- CA> Date:Tue, 1 Aug 1995 04:43:44 PDT
On Tue, 1 Aug 1995 01:22:00 -0400 you wrote:
>>Note that the files are now in .BMP format.
>Bit maps prepared in OS/2 are not necessarily going to work in Word for
>Windows. Maybe someone else can tell us why.
OS/2 2.x and Windows bitmaps are marginally different... I think only in the
first two bytes, but enough so Windows won't normally recognize a OS/2 bitmap
(unless you have a graphics app like Paintshop Pro that knows how to recognize
them :)
OS/2 used to have the same problem with Windows bitmaps, although Warp now
supports them directly.
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