Heh heh, I remember the days of DOS and BBSing and The Draw and DOOM II and MODs and demos....
I don't know how to display the higher-ascii characters in the text-mode console, but if under X you start an xterm or rxvt or whatever and load it with an ansi font (eg xterm -font vga or rxvt -fn vga, you'll need to download the font first) then you can properly display all those colored blocks and funky characters. If anyone knows how to display these characters in text mode, please let me know. I'm thinking it might be possible with the 2.1.x kernels, because they let you display all kinds of weird things in text mode like yellow prompts and graphical penguins, IIRC. But I may be wrong. Christopher Matt Garman wrote: > > Does anyone know of a way (or a utility) to view ansi graphics under > Linux? > > I used to run a BBS a few years back, and had it pretty jazzed out > with colorful ANSi graphics. I can't just "cat" the files, though, > because the high-ascii characters are not diplayed correctly (and by > high-ascii I mean blocks and "shaded blocks," lines, etc.). > > Back in the day I created the ANSI graphics with a DOS program called > "TheDraw" and viewed them with "type <filename.ans>." Of course, the > ANSI.SYS driver had to be loaded. > > Thanks > Matt > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
