decoding/viewing pictures
Hello again ! As I often download fractal images from the newsgroups I would like to find a news reader which will auto-decode the encrypted graphics and auto-exec a viewer programme ? Can anyone recommend a good picture viewer - prefer svgalib based rather than X based but any _good_ viewer is better than nothing ? My inability to find this software is the only reason I have left to use Win95 and, although I don't have a phobia about MS products, I would prefer to use Debian consistently. It's an absolute pain to have to re-boot just because I want to look at pretty pictures and then re-boot to get some work done (and, of course, I lose my dial-up connection with each re-boot !) As always, any and all comments are welcome. Ivan.
Re: decoding/viewing pictures
ivan hat gesagt: // ivan wrote: As I often download fractal images from the newsgroups I would like to find a news reader which will auto-decode the encrypted graphics and auto-exec a viewer programme ? Can anyone recommend a good picture viewer - prefer svgalib based rather than X based but any _good_ viewer is better than nothing ? My inability to find this software is the only reason I have left to use Win95 and, although I don't have a phobia about MS products, I would prefer to use Debian consistently. It's an absolute pain to have to re-boot just because I want to look at pretty pictures and then re-boot to get some work done (and, of course, I lose my dial-up connection with each re-boot !) For viewing pictures under svgalib there is the package zgv. It is similar to xv which you could only use with X. A good newsreader for the console is IMO slrn. To uudecode a message just put the cursor on it and hit the key : It will load the message and decode it. To decode multipart messages tag them all with the key # and the press : -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: decoding/viewing pictures
On 22 Feb 1999q, ivan wrote: Hello again ! As I often download fractal images from the newsgroups I would like to find a news reader which will auto-decode the encrypted graphics and auto-exec a viewer programme ? Can anyone recommend a good picture viewer - prefer svgalib based rather than X based but any _good_ viewer is better than nothing ? My inability to find this software is the only reason I have left to use Win95 and, although I don't have a phobia about MS products, I would prefer to use Debian consistently. It's an absolute pain to have to re-boot just because I want to look at pretty pictures and then re-boot to get some work done (and, of course, I lose my dial-up connection with each re-boot !) As always, any and all comments are welcome. Ivan. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null zgv will do this without X. I suppose you could link it with a news reader but I don't know about this. It certainly works from mutt for me. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
