Path: utzoo!mnetor!intacc!mann
From: mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: GIF viewer on VT100
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.204756.2743@intacc.uucp>
Date: 12 Jun 91 20:47:56 GMT
References: <19403.9106101930@uk.ac.keele.seq1>
Organization: Inter/Access Artists' Centre Toronto
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In article <19403.9106101930@uk.ac.keele.seq1> csw22@keele.ac.uk writes:
>Does anyone know of a Un*x program that will let me view GIFs on a
>standard VT100 dumb text terminal ?
>
>-- Rob --
>                   /-----------------------------------\
>                   |  Rob Barth  -  csw22@uk.ac.keele  |
>                   \-----------------------------------/

Yes, it's not too difficult.  Just log in to your unix machine from your
Macintosh through the Gatorbox ethernet router, and ftp the GIF to the
Mac.  Then take the GIF into the Adobe Photoshop program on your
Macintosh, and convert it to TARGA format.  (You could probably use
pbmplus or something on unix for this step, but Photoshop has nice
menus.) Then, send the TARGA picture over your TOPS network to your IBM
with the TARGA 16 card in it.  Then, you can use the program I wrote for
the TARGA to convert the picture to an ASCII text representation.  (I'll
e-mail you a copy of the ASCII converter .exe file if you need this).
Then send the ASCII file back to the unix machine in the normal way, and
voila!  You can cat the file to your VT100 terminal.  You might even be
able to tell what the picture is, if it is a closeup of a face or
something easily recognizable.  That's how I would do it anyways.

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