From:	MERC::"uunet!CRVAX.SRI.COM!RELAY-INFO-VAX"  8-OCT-1992 21:10:43.06
To:	info-vax@kl.sri.com
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Subj:	Solution: Displaying GIFs on a VT330

Some days ago I posted a question here, how to display GIFs or similar
common graphics formats on a DEC VT330 Terminal. After a while I got an
solution. As some people asked me to forward them any answers to my
question I will explain how it works.

Actually I don't have a specific GIF-Viewer , but I found a nice way to
show GIFs on a VT330 anyway. All You need is the PBM+ Graphics Package.
Then you just have to execute a statement like this:
(for this solution you need something like Unix-Pipe, otherwise use Temp-Files)

giftoppm GIFNAME | pnmdither | ppmscale .5 | ppmquant 4 | ppmtosixel >OUTFILE

Then a simple type OUTFILE will show the Pic in a rather good quality.

PS: In my VMS-PBM+ Package the ppmtosixel seem to have a bug.
    When I use a Unix Version of PBM+ everything works fine.