just install zgv, will do the trick for ya On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > On Fr, Dez 03, 2004 at 01:43:56 +0100, Osvaldo La Rosa wrote: > > the question may sound very strange, but I would like to know if there > > exist a tool for showing a jpg or gif to a sighted person, on the > > console, without needing X? > > If a simple ASCII file is good enough to, you could redirect the output > of /dev/vcsX in to a file. The command > > cat /dev/vcs0 > tty0.txt > > redirects the content of your first console to the file tty0.txt. Maybe > thats enough for your needs and you don't have to play arround with anny > tools for gif or jpeg. > > Regards, > Schöpp > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: andor@xxxxxxxxxxxx student computer science www: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen Storm 2002-2004 vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list