[ale] Image programs for Linux?
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Nov 18 21:08:42 EST 2004
James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 13:46, Jay Loden wrote:
>
>> What's the command to invoke xv ? I don't have any "xv" on my
>> machine, but I do have imagemagick installed. Is it maybe not
>> included because of the closed source nature?
>
>
> xv is no longer installed by any distro as it is not any form of open
> source. It is free for personal use.
Uh, actually, as I previously noted, it comes with Suse 9.2 and 9.1.
>
> Yes, it works. Yes, it's ugly. Yes, it appears to have been possibly
> abandoned by its author as the last update was 1999. He waiting on an
> afordable LZW license.
Very light weight and quite functional for the purpose he's requested.
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Until later, Geoffrey
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