Re: Viewing ANSI Art on Linux ?
From The Unknown Artist <unk...@artistic.se>
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· 8 Feb 2003 07:26 · View full thread
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On 2003-02-08 tho...@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. You'll find ,-' \_/ `\
a lot of DOS ANSI viewers ( , |
at: http://www.simtel.net. `-.-'`-.-'/|_|
Make sure that you first \ / | |
select the "M$-DOS" section =()=: / ,' ua
from the main Simtelnet page.
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