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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 8 Feb 2003.
Re: Viewing ANSI Art on Linux ?

Re: Viewing ANSI Art on Linux ?

The Unknown Artist <unk...@artistic.se> wrote:
> 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.

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/@./.@/)

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