Re: viewing ansi graphics
Heh heh, I remember the days of DOS and BBSing and The Draw and DOOM II
and MODs and demos....
I don't know how to display the higher-ascii characters in the text-mode
console, but if under X you start an xterm or rxvt or whatever and load
it with an ansi font (eg xterm -font vga or rxvt -fn vga, you'll need to
download the font first) then you can properly display all those colored
blocks and funky characters. If anyone knows how to display these
characters in text mode, please let me know.
I'm thinking it might be possible with the 2.1.x kernels, because they
let you display all kinds of weird things in text mode like yellow
prompts and graphical penguins, IIRC. But I may be wrong.
Christopher
Matt Garman wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a way (or a utility) to view ansi graphics under
> Linux?
>
> I used to run a BBS a few years back, and had it pretty jazzed out
> with colorful ANSi graphics. I can't just "cat" the files, though,
> because the high-ascii characters are not diplayed correctly (and by
> high-ascii I mean blocks and "shaded blocks," lines, etc.).
>
> Back in the day I created the ANSI graphics with a DOS program called
> "TheDraw" and viewed them with "type <filename.ans>." Of course, the
> ANSI.SYS driver had to be loaded.
>
> Thanks
> Matt
>
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