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From: beau1029@mstr.hgc.edu (donald beaudry)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: GIF viewer on VT100
Message-ID: <1991Jun16.064302.23254@mstr.hgc.edu>
Date: 16 Jun 91 06:43:02 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 --
>|> 

You ask a simple question, you want a simple answer.  Here goes:

1.  Get the pbmplus toolkit (ftp as contrib/pbmplus.tar.Z from 
	export.lcs.mit.edu).

2.  Build it on your favorite Unix box.

3.  Type:  
	  giftoppm myfile.gif | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmtoascii > myfile.txt

4.  cat myfile.txt

5.  Crop and scale to taste.

This produces raw text that can be catted onto any tty.  If you've scaled
way down, stand futher away.