X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,f5188e3907698949 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-08 05:13:58 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Harry Mason Subject: Re: Viewing ANSI Art on Linux ? References: <3e44b10f@post.usenet.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Host: servalan.ecs.soton.ac.uk Date: 8 Feb 2003 12:56:07 GMT X-Trace: 8 Feb 2003 12:56:07 GMT, servalan.ecs.soton.ac.uk Lines: 20 Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!server3.netnews.ja.net!south.jnrs.ja.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!news-spool.soton.ac.uk!news.ecs.soton.ac.uk!servalan.ecs.soton.ac.uk Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:21753 The Unknown Artist wrote: > On 2003-02-08 thomasb@math.ohio-state.edu said: > > > I would like to be able to view ansi art on my linux virtual console like > > one can on a dos console. However if I should try to 'cat' an ansi art file > > on to the console all i see is garbage characters of some latin character > > set. > > Those are the ANSI sequences, Honey. ANSI isn't a Linux thing. Your best best > would be to download one of the many freeware DOS-based ANSI viewers, and run > it under DOSEMU. Pardon? Both the Linux console and xterm support ANSI control sequences. I've viewed ANSI art in both. Maybe your terminal is interpreting UTF-8, or perhaps it's set to the wrong terminal type. Can you upload the file somewhere for other Linux users to try? -- Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)