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
":"
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Frank Barknecht ____ ______ ____ __ trip\ \ / /wire ______
/ __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\
/ / / ____/ / / / // ____// /\ \\ ___\\____ \
/_/ /_____/ /_/ /_//_____// / \ \\_____\\_____\
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