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From: steele@mountaindew.rtp.dg.com (Michael Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: GIF viewer on VT100
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.200213.26258@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 11 Jun 91 20:02:13 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.163513.22969@unlv.edu>, grover@big-joe.cs.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover) writes:
|> 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

I have a friend who has written a GIF viewer for VT320 terminals.  He did it
by redefining the character set.  The image is about 1.5"x1.5".  Surprisingly, 
you can tell what most images are.  It doesn't make a good viewer if you've
never seen the image before, just useful if you need to track down a file and
can't remember the name.  You can send my friend mail: gar@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu.

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