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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 08:55:51 -0500
From: michael@afs.com
To: next-icon@gun.com
Subject: The long-awaited country flags
Reply-To: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com
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I've had a ton of requests for these, so rather than replying individually, I'm sending the whole thing to the list.  The following is a directory called flags (note, it's a directory, the icon you see is just a .dir.tiff linked to one of the icons, or should be a link if NeXTMail didn't keep changing it to a real file ¬). This directory contains all the country flag icons that I have.  Each icon is LZW compressed (yes, I know NeXTMail also compresses, but they're already LZW'd to save space on my disk, so there it is).

From: Timothy Bissell <bisselt@gb.swissbank.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 11:15:01 GMT
To: nobugs!next-icon
Subject: UK Flag update.
Reply-To: bisselt@gb.swissbank.com

I loved the Flags drawn by Dave Anderson, and posted to this list a few months ago, but I was never really happy with the Union flag; the white bits were too large.  To cut a long story short, I blew it up, smoothed it out and shrank it again with WetPaint.  Here is the end result; I hope people like it, and Tim thinks it is worth moving into the NetFlags archive.

P.S.  Thanks for the credit Tim!

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 12:04:06 -0500
From: Stan Jirman <stan@pegram-315a.dorm.duke.edu>
To: next-icon@gun.com
Subject: Swiss Flag Update
Reply-To: sj1@acpub.duke.edu

Well, after the UK flag update, I thought there are reasons for an even more profound update of the Swiss flag. 

It has been forgotten (and what most non-Swiss forget) that the Swiss flag is square-shaped. And please don't argue that all flags in this archive are rectangular - Nepal isn't either :)

I blew it up, cut left & right parts and reassembled it. However, for many practical reasons, I prefer TIFFany II over Wet Paint.

Yet another remark: the name of "Czechoslovakia" should be "Czech Republic" - the Slovaks have a different flag. We are dealing with two nations now...

cu
Stan