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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Feb 2003.
Re: Viewing ANSI Art on Linux ?

Re: Viewing ANSI Art on Linux ?

B Thomas wrote:

> Hi,
> I would like to be able to view ansi art on my linux virtual console
> like one can on a dos console. However if I should try to 'cat' an ansi
> art file on to the console all i see is garbage characters of some
> latin character set.
> TIA
> BT

I use SuSE Linux with KDE 3 desktop. If you open shell console and change 
the font to courier, it looks fine. (Settings/Font/Custom... on the window 
menu)
-- 
ping.vin

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