From: Mark Buckaway (mark@datasoft.north.net)
Date: 08/06/93


From: mark@datasoft.north.net (Mark Buckaway)
Subject: Re: GIF viewers for Linux
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1993 11:47:13 GMT

venzaida wrote:

: There are also another viewers:

: spic (at sunsite) - requires svgalib (and SVGA card?), GIF/JPEG,
: has mouse support
:
: zgv (I think at tsx-11.mit.edu, also ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de) - GIFs/JPEGs,
: has very nice menu.

: view1.0 (should be at tsx-11 in sources/usr.bin, and I've seen it on some
: mirroring sites) - that's my viewer for GIFs/JPEGs, right now I'm
: working on the new version - you will be able to scroll images
: bigger than the screen (it works, but I should fix some minor bugs)

: You will need vgalib (I think 1.2 is the last) in order to compile
: zgv and view, or svgalib for spic.

You are forgetting the jpeg library as well. Could you possibly tell
us where to get it? So far I have attempted to compile all of the
above, and something is always missing.

Anyone know where to get the JPEG library these viewers require?

Mark