[ale] OT Shot in the dark, cli image viewer

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 16:16:47 EST 2005


One solution would be to enable X forwarding and use `display` from ImageMagick.


On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:43:45 -0500, Nathan J. Underwood
<ale1 at cybertechcafe.net> wrote:
> Is there anything that I can use to view an image via an ssh terminal
> session into a *nix box (FC3)?  What I would like to have is something
> that would allow me to type (for example) "view foo.gif" from the
> command line, and see the picture.  Don't need to modify it, just need
> to view it.

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