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From: su9hbs@gdt.bath.ac.uk (#!* - HashBangSplat)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: GIF viewer on VT100
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.112206.13555@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Jun 91 11:22:06 GMT
References: <19403.9106101930@uk.ac.keele.seq1> <1991Jun11.163513.22969@unlv.edu> <1991Jun11.123704@IASTATE.EDU>
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In article <1991Jun11.123704@IASTATE.EDU> jbhuber@IASTATE.EDU (Huber Joseph Blaine) 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 --
>>
>
>I too am looking for such a program, except that I am using a vt241 (which
>supports regis and tektronics 4010/4014, and some color).  I would greatly
>appreciate if those who mail Rob could drop me a line as well.  I regularly read
>this group, so I will find any responses left here.
>
>Another question (I hope it is approprate for this group) : is there a document
>that describes and/or summarizes the graphics capabilities of the various dec
>vt1xx, vt2xx, vt3xx as well as tektronics 4xxx series terminals.  I am
>interested in color capabilites, resolution, etc.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help!!
>
>Joseph B. Huber   jbhuber@iastate.edu
>Dept. of Mech Egr.
>Iowa State University

	I have been playing around with such ideas for a while now. If you
have the PBMplus package then you can convert these images (GIFS) to a ppm
file. I have written a program that produces reasonable colour halftones on a
tek40xx COLOUR terminal, ie tvi925 or MS-Kermit ( eight colours ie r + g + b ),
or colour dithers again in 8 colours.

	I do stress that you need the PBMplus package to convert the GIFs to a
format understood by my program. Also it is decidedly slow. It takes about 15
mins to draw the image on a 9600 baud line. If there are a reasonable number
of requests then I'll post a uuencoded compressed tar of the sources involved.

Hope you're interested,
Jez.
-- 
Jez Nicholls               
<ee9jan@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
                             "Marmalade, I like marmalade.", "Ooh me flakes."
#include "disclaimer.h"      These quotes courtesy of Alan. (APB AHM PF 1971)