console-only freebsd

[Brian Reichert]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 04:43:08PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 15:20:19 +0100, tech-lists wrote:
> > what program or port would one use to view a gif or jpg file?
> 
> Additional thought:
> 
> With vt, default text modes are typically much bigger than
> the traditional 80x25 of sc. With the "block graphics" and
> maybe ASCII art + foreground / background color attributes,
> maybe there is a viewer that converts the image into "text
> with control characters" that can be displayed directy in
> the vt text mode, without using any graphics?
> 
> Just a stupid thought... ;-)

I wonder if AA-lib is still viable; it was fun to play with back in
the day: :)

  http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/index.html

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Brian Reichert				<reichert at numachi.com>
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