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Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... 
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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 18:47:24 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>Before bundling and releasing this (or just plastering it into -current 
>8) I'm looking for:
>
> - Testers.  Naturally, I need people to find my bugs. 8)
>
> - A better image format.  The DIB (.BMP) format is relatively easy to
>   work with, but a 320x200x8 image runs the best part of 64k, which is
>   slow to load from floppy and wastes valuable core.

How about GIF?  

Kazu