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  • Linux syncterm 1.1. Sixel images

    From Captain Morgan@46:1/104 to All on Sat Dec 9 03:56:47 2023
    Managed to compile syncterm 1.1 for linux and Hawk's (blackflag.acid.org) sixel images section looks great. Can't post a forward slash but I've posted one example at url (https)

    tinyurl.com <forward slash> 52vkjbvt

    I suspect the foward slash issue is down to myself as I've just built a linux kernel (6.6.4) with busybox, and added relatively little to that (enough for ssh, framebuffer vnc, wifi net connect ...etc.). Less than 17MB combined initramfs and vmlinuz (xz compressed) - around 60MB when running. With that I can vnc into a server and run a full gui desktop, including syncterm. Nice that a old laptop can be running chrome watching youtubes etc. whilst using less than 100MB ram, and even though wifi connected web pages load at hard wired ethernet server (nvidia i5) speeds :)

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  • From Captain Morgan@46:1/104 to Captain Morgan on Sat Dec 9 04:51:21 2023
    I didn't know that native linux xterm supports sixel image display.

    xterm -ti 340 -fa "Monospace" -fs 14 (its the -ti 340 switch that actually initiates .sixel image rendering), and within that cat a .sixel image file and the image is visible. You can use a online image converter to convert a png, jpeg or whatever to a .sixel image.

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  • From Captain Morgan@46:1/104 to Captain Morgan on Tue Dec 12 08:18:15 2023
    yaft works relatively well in the linux framebuffer
    and also supports sixel images :)
    A simple make;make install compile and then run it
    yaft /bin/sh



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  • From Captain Morgan@46:1/104 to Captain Morgan on Tue Dec 12 08:21:55 2023
    https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=105487#p105487
    .. has some linux sixel related posts



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  • From Captain Morgan@46:1/104 to Captain Morgan on Thu Dec 14 10:39:50 2023
    xterm -fa Monospace -fs 12 -ti vt340 -e telnet blackflag.acid.org
    ... and once logged in check out the sixel images section



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  • From nelgin@46:1/194 to All on Fri Dec 15 00:15:58 2023
    On Sat, 9 Dec 2023 04:51:21 -0800
    "Captain Morgan" (46:1/104) <Captain.Morgan@f104.n1.z46.fidonet> wrote:

    I didn't know that native linux xterm supports sixel image display.

    xterm -ti 340 -fa "Monospace" -fs 14 (its the -ti 340 switch that
    actually initiates .sixel image rendering), and within that cat a
    .sixel image file and the image is visible. You can use a online
    image converter to convert a png, jpeg or whatever to a .sixel image.

    ... Everyone smiles in the same language.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/01/28 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Black Flag <ACiD Telnet HQ> blackflag.acid.org:23
    (46:1/104)

    I've been using sixel images on my BBS quite a while now. I use is to
    display the NASA image of the day (unless it's a video). You can find
    it under Doors > Weather and Space at endofthelinebbs.com
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    End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX
    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23
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  • From Captain Morgan@46:1/104 to nelgin on Sat Dec 16 20:12:13 2023
    Thanks



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  • From Captain Morgan@46:1/104 to nelgin on Sun Dec 17 06:08:39 2023
    nelgin, when I use linux and xterm -ti vt340 then on blackflag.acid.org the sixel images show fine. Tried the same over on your endofthelinebbs.com and the Doors/weather/nasa sixel images fails - just reports that my terminal doesn't support sixel images. I think the difference may be that blackflag just cat's (types) the images no matter what (with a pre warning that weird
    things may happen if your terminal doesn't support sixel images), whereas yours is testing that the view request supports sixel images.

    I also have syncterm, but 1.0 that doesn't support sixel's, I did build 1.1 but it was massive so I dropped it out of my mini-boot that I use for BBS browsing.



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  • From nelgin@46:1/194 to All on Mon Dec 18 00:34:51 2023
    On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 06:08:39 -0800
    "Captain Morgan" (46:1/104) <Captain.Morgan@f104.n1.z46.fidonet> wrote:

    nelgin, when I use linux and xterm -ti vt340 then on
    blackflag.acid.org the sixel images show fine. Tried the same over on
    your endofthelinebbs.com and the Doors/weather/nasa sixel images
    fails - just reports that my terminal doesn't support sixel images. I
    think the difference may be that blackflag just cat's (types) the
    images no matter what (with a pre warning that weird things may
    happen if your terminal doesn't support sixel images), whereas yours
    is testing that the view request supports sixel images.

    I also have syncterm, but 1.0 that doesn't support sixel's, I did
    build 1.1 but it was massive so I dropped it out of my mini-boot that
    I use for BBS browsing.


    When I get a chance I will add a prompt to try and display the image
    anyway for cases like yours. It'll probably be midweek when I can get
    around to it. Thanks for the report.
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  • From nelgin@46:1/194 to Captain Morgan on Wed Dec 20 17:01:07 2023
    Re: Re: Linux syncterm 1.1. Sixel images
    By: Captain Morgan to nelgin on Sun Dec 17 2023 06:08:39

    nelgin, when I use linux and xterm -ti vt340 then on blackflag.acid.org the sixel images show fine. Tried the same over on your endofthelinebbs.com and the Doors/weather/nasa sixel images fails - just reports that my terminal doesn't support sixel images. I think the difference may be that blackflag

    I have fixed the NASA Image of the day thing so it will now ask if you would like to try anyway. If your terminal really doesn't support sixels then you'll just get a string of ascii characters, otherwise the image should come up. Please try and let me know.

    Thanks,
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  • From Captain Morgan@46:1/104 to nelgin on Thu Dec 21 07:01:08 2023
    Works great now Nigel



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  • From nelgin@46:1/194 to Captain Morgan on Thu Dec 21 09:56:21 2023
    Re: Re: Linux syncterm 1.1. Sixel images
    By: Captain Morgan to nelgin on Thu Dec 21 2023 07:01:08

    Works great now Nigel
    Great. Thanks for the feedback.

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  • From Captain Morgan@46:1/104 to nelgin on Thu Dec 21 17:02:10 2023
    Hi Nigel

    One improvement might be to change the colours of the status/menu bar when you read messages. With syncterm on Linux the colours are OK, with xterm the menu options are invisible, just a white bar line

    https://i.postimage.cc/50TXLMst/syncterm.png https://i.postimage.cc/BQcvQDfb/xtermvt340.png



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  • From nelgin@46:1/194 to Captain Morgan on Thu Dec 21 22:07:37 2023
    Re: Re: Linux syncterm 1.1. Sixel images
    By: Captain Morgan to nelgin on Thu Dec 21 2023 17:02:10

    https://i.postimage.cc/50TXLMst/syncterm.png https://i.postimage.cc/BQcvQDfb/xtermvt340.png

    This site is not reachable. I tried 3 different browsers.
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  • From Captain Morgan@46:1/194 to nelgin on Fri Dec 22 02:17:50 2023
    Re: Re: Linux syncterm 1.1. Sixel images
    By: nelgin to Captain Morgan on Thu Dec 21 2023 22:07:37

    https://i.postimage.cc/50TXLMst/syncterm.png https://i.postimage.cc/BQcvQDfb/xtermvt340.png

    This site is not reachable. I tried 3 different browsers.
    Likely my bad typing.
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