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

[Geoffrey]

Barry Hawkins wrote:
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> Nathan J. Underwood 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.
> The issues I can think of are whether your kernel has framebuffer
> support compiled in and whether or not SSH has to have X forwarding
> turned on to allow kernel framebuffering through.  Once you have that
> worked out, trying some of the techniques mentioned in the following
> O'Reilly article might be a good test:
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> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/01/06/digicam.html

You don't need framebuffer if you're running X on 'this' side.

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Until later, Geoffrey