[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.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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