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From: [e-mail] (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Fun with Sixels
Date: 11 Dec 1996 01:33:20 GMT
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For MS-DOS Kermit users...  A small collection of Sixel graphics files, most
of them from John G. Zvonar, of Austin, Texas, along with John's program
PCX2SIX.EXE, a DOS program to convert Windows PCX (PC Paintbrush) files to
Sixel format, for display by MS-DOS Kermit's REPLAY command, or for display
through MS-DOS Kermit's terminal emulator from the host.  Of course, you can
also display them on any real VTxxx graphics terminal (e.g. VT340), or print
them on a Sixel printer.

For those who don't know, Sixels are a compact way of transmitting raster
graphics -- color or monochrome -- using ANSI-format escape sequences.

The Sixel files, programs, and documentation are in:

  ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/sixel/

Thanks to John for contributing this material to the Kermit archive.  If
anyone else has some nice Sixel examples for the gallery, let me know.

- Frank