From: Marc G Fournier (marc@r-node.hub.org)
Date: 04/18/93


From: marc@r-node.hub.org (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: GIF Viewer for Linux?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 16:22:38 GMT

lcd@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Leon Dent) writes:

>For plain vga (non-X) use dpg-view. You will also need vgalib12.tar.Z
>For X use xv. An xv binary exists on sunsite.unc.edu, however it
>needs a rather large set of shared libs to run.

        is there any way of switching the text mode without rebooting?
I've tried out dpg-view, but my console is in 25x132 mode, and
therefore none of the gifs quite come out right :( it seems to
'stretch' the picture out to the full 132 columns...real bad :)

marc

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