ivan hat gesagt: // ivan wrote: > As I often download fractal images from the newsgroups I would like to find > a news reader which will auto-decode the encrypted graphics and auto-exec a > viewer programme ? > > Can anyone recommend a good picture viewer - prefer svgalib based rather > than X based but any _good_ viewer is better than nothing ? > > My inability to find this software is the only reason I have left to use > Win95 and, although I don't have a phobia about MS products, I would prefer > to use Debian consistently. It's an absolute pain to have to re-boot just > because I want to look at pretty pictures and then re-boot to get some work > done (and, of course, I lose my dial-up connection with each re-boot !)
For viewing pictures under svgalib there is the package zgv. It is similar to xv which you could only use with X. A good newsreader for the console is IMO slrn. To uudecode a message just put the cursor on it and hit the key ":" It will load the message and decode it. To decode multipart messages "tag" them all with the key "#" and the press ":" -- __ __ Frank Barknecht ____ ______ ____ __ trip\ \ / /wire ______ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / ____/ / / / // ____// /\ \\ ___\\____ \ /_/ /_____/ /_/ /_//_____// / \ \\_____\\_____\ /_/ \_\