Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-02 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004, Brad Sims wrote: > On Sunday 01 February 2004 12:24 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > aview itself can only show pnm pictures, but asciiview (which comes with > > it) will convert the pictures with netpbm or imagemagick and then display > > it. > > Hrm does it use libcaca (like

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 12:29:25 -0500, Brett Carrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:21:34AM -0600, Bill Kalebaugh wrote: > > [snip lots of stuff about text consoles and jpegs] > So this got me thinking. Is there anything to display jpegs on

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, February 01 at 2:18 PM EST Brett Carrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:24:12PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >> Brett Carrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:21:34AM -0600, Bill Kalebaugh wrote: >> >> [snip lots of stuff about

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 02:18:02PM -0500, Brett Carrington wrote: > What package would have something like jpg2p[ngbp]m? convert (part of imagemagick) is a CLI util that can convert between a whole slew of different formats, including the above. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here:

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 01 February 2004 12:24 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > aview itself can only show pnm pictures, but asciiview (which comes with > it) will convert the pictures with netpbm or imagemagick and then display > it. Hrm does it use libcaca (like aalib but supports color) I wonder. -- "I can't

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Brett Carrington
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:24:12PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Brett Carrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:21:34AM -0600, Bill Kalebaugh wrote: > >> [snip lots of stuff about text consoles and jpegs] > > So this got me thinking. Is there anything to display j

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Brett Carrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:21:34AM -0600, Bill Kalebaugh wrote: >> [snip lots of stuff about text consoles and jpegs] > So this got me thinking. Is there anything to display jpegs on a > terminal as ASCII art? I think aalib can do this? The package >

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Brett Carrington
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:21:34AM -0600, Bill Kalebaugh wrote: > [snip lots of stuff about text consoles and jpegs] So this got me thinking. Is there anything to display jpegs on a terminal as ASCII art? I think aalib can do this? The package `hasciicam` does something similar but I don't know if

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Bill Kalebaugh
Bill Kalebaugh wrote: Bijan Soleymani wrote: Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:33:21 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: Gauri, a text terminal is a *text* terminal. The Linux GUI interface is X. So you need to be using a viewer in X. Linux is not like the old DOS

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Bill Kalebaugh
Bijan Soleymani wrote: Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:33:21 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: Gauri, a text terminal is a *text* terminal. The Linux GUI interface is X. So you need to be using a viewer in X. Linux is not like the old DOS OSes which ran programs

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:33:21 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > >> >> Gauri, a text terminal is a *text* terminal. The Linux GUI interface is >> X. So you need to be using a viewer in X. >> >> Linux is not like the old DOS OSes which ran programs which took

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:33:21 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > Gauri, a text terminal is a *text* terminal. The Linux GUI interface is > X. So you need to be using a viewer in X. > > Linux is not like the old DOS OSes which ran programs which took over the > video with their own custom device-spe

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:54:30 +0530, Gauri S Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i am not a subscriber to the list. i hope this message gets posted. i > also request you to mark a copy of your replies to me. > > i use debian 3.0. > > is there any program/ utility that will let me see jpg/ gif files

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:54:30PM +0530, Gauri S Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i am not a subscriber to the list. i hope this message gets posted. i > also request you to mark a copy of your replies to me. > > i use debian 3.0. > > is there any program/ utility that will let me see jpg/ gif