| I presume you mean "VAX Sight" ?
Sight stores its data in UIS metafile format.
Transferring a Sight image into Paint should be reasonably
easy, but it's questionable as to whether you'd want to do it.
Sight is an object editor, Paint is a bitmap editor. What this
means is that two figures (say, two filled circles) remain as
two figures in Sight, and you can manipulate them independently.
By contrast, all that Paint knows about are the individual
pixels. Once you've committed something to canvas, you cannot
change it or remove it, and what was underneath is gone forever.
The VWS people are reportedly writing something to allow
you to convert Sight files to some useful DECwindows format.
I don't know what editor they're targeting (Rags? but that's
internal-only). You're more likely to find out about it
in the VWS notes file (BULOVA::VWS?).
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There is a GER to DDIF converter being written for UIS metafiles,
but if the requirement is to edit it in PAINT, then the easiest
thing to do (esp since the converter isn't ready) is to use the
UTOX application and convert it into a bitmap. You might need to
hack things by RENDERing the Sight files first into SIXEL data.
_Fred
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