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From: grover@big-joe.cs.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: GIF viewer on VT100
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Date: 11 Jun 91 16:35:13 GMT
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In article <19403.9106101930@uk.ac.keele.seq1>, seq1!@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Rob Barth) writes:
) Does anyone know of a Un*x program that will let me view GIFs on a
) standard VT100 dumb text terminal ?
) 
) -- Rob --

Trying to view a GIF on a VT100 would be slightly better than useless: the VT100
series supports no graphics nor color.  You could write a viewer for the VT330
(gray scale) and VT340 series though.  However, they would be VERY slow compared
to say a PC or X11 station unless the terminal were connected directly (or through
a VERY fast link) to the machine decoding the image.  If anyone wishes to 
undertake this problem, I wrote a bunch of C macros to do VT330/340 graphics
a while back. I could post them or send them to anyone interested.  (Once I find
them that is :-) ).  With these macros it should be a simple task to convert
another GIF viewer (written in protable C) to work on VT3xx series terminals.

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