Subject: veiwing jpgs,gifs..

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 96 18:08:52 GMT

how do i view a selected file of gifs,jpgs  in pine from a newgroup..
I have opened the file and would like to veiw it graphiclly.. I get the 
message. x11 required.. How do i set up this..
I export the file to dir. but cant veiw it.. it seems there is no decoding 
available..

help appreciated..

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From: [email-masked] (Juergen Sauer)
Date: 27 Dec 1996 17:27:11 +0100

[email-masked] schrieb
am Fri, 20 Dec 96 18:08:52 GMT in comp.mail.pine:
dan> how do i view a selected file of gifs,jpgs  in pine from a newgroup..
dan> I have opened the file and would like to veiw it graphiclly.. I get the 
dan> message. x11 required.. How do i set up this..
[...]

X11 is the common graphical environment in the Unix world, a very old
speaking is X-Windows.
If you are eMail reading on a workstation directly, try to start
'startx', if X11 get up try it with pine again, it should go, 
if you sysadmins are doing their job well.

To configure a X11 base system is not recommended for beginners,
it's a very complex procedure.
Good Luck
	Jojo

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 14:04:28 +0100 (MET)

>if you sysadmins are doing their job well.

Another way - an easier one I guess>;-> - would be to get a command-line
picture viewer (see bottom of message). Why start X for emailing?

>it's a very complex procedure.

Is it? If you're using an advanced LinuX distrib like the German S.u.S.E.,
it's a cakewalk, provided you got your tex-spex-sheets at hand.

Cheers,
Robin

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| GRAV 3.5                                              (C) Michael Knigge |
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I've uploaded the fourth public Release of  my  Graphic-Viewer  GRAV  to
sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu. GRAV runs at the Linux Console  (NOT
X11!!!). It uses a nice (I think so) User Interface to select the images
you want to look at.

GRAV supports many popular formats of graphics: GIF, PCX, LBM, IFF, PPM
PBM, BMP, JPEG, PNG and many many other....

To get GRAV running you must have installed at  least  NCurses  1.8  and
SVGALIB 0.98. Newer releases would be better of course ;-)    But beware
that there are some bugs in ncurses versions > 1.8.7 and  <  1.9.1a  and
GRAV will probably not run with these versions of ncurses. And  for  the
new JPEG-Support you need the JPEGLIB >= 5.0 from the IJG!

There are no really "new" features, but I think GRAV now looks a  little
bit nicer at some points, I fixed many bugs and I've included  the  full
source code of all used libraries - so all you ELF  users  can  now  use
GRAV, too.

Sometimes GRAV can't handle PING-Images correctly. Please eMail your
Ping-Images to me if you have problems with them. Especially I need some
Truecolor Ping-Images for testing!

So, watch out for the files grav-3.5.tar.gz and grav-3.5.lsm! Please  send
any suggestions, comments and cakes ;-)  to [email-masked]