cga2000 wrote: > is there a howto (of sorts) anywhere?
Not AFAIK. But xterm basically understands ansi sequences, so it should not be difficult to write a filter that would produce the picture by means of cat xxxx.ans |filter You could use either -- the special xterm mode which displays box characters (something like ESC(O , or something similar, forgot what it is). or -- a utf-8 capable xterm The problem is that not only ansi sequences (for colours and cursor position) must be interpreted. xterm does this by default. But also the characters themselves must be translated from PC-DOS ("codepage 437") to the characters understood by your xterm (iso-8859-1 or utf-8). As a quick test, I tried some of the ansi art examples in http://www.acid.org/ftp/aaa-8991.zip on my utf-8 capable xterm, simply using iconv to convert codepage 437 to utf-8, e.g.: iconv -f 437 -t utf-8 tohs.ans I suppose that if you have a legacy xterm with iso-8859-1 (unfortunately still the default in Debian) it would have to be iconv -f 437 -t iso-8859-1 tohs.ans This gives some idea of what it should look like. It becomes better when you select reverse video (control-middle click, then select reverse video). But getting the true glory of ansi art, including the proper colour scheme, would require a specially-written filter, I think. The easiest is to just use the TYPE command in an ms-dos environment (dosemu) with ansi.sys. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]