aview
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A high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player

Program is especially useful with a text-based browser such as lynx,
links or w3m.It supports the pnm, pgm, pbm and ppm image formats, as
well as the FLI and FLC video formats. It also supports output via
stdio, (n)curses and slang and even has support for gpm.

Usage notes:
  pngtopnm test.png > test.pnm
  aview -driver curses test.pnm

Runtime requirements:
  cygwin
  libaa1
  bash (/usr/bin/asciiview)

Build requirements:
  cygwin
  aalib-devel

Canonical homepage:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa-project
  http://packages.debian.org/aview

Canonical download:
  See above

Version control repository:

Mailing list:

Forum / Wiki:

IRC channel:

Upstream contact:
  Maintainer: Jan Hubicka <hubickausers.sourceforge.net>, <hubicka at freesoft.cz>
  Bugs: Jan Hubicka <hubickausers.sourceforge.net>

License:
  GPL

Language:
  C

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Build instructions:
  unpack aview-*-src.tar.bz2
    if you use setup to install this src package, it will be
    unpacked under /usr/src automatically
  cd /usr/src
  ./aview*.sh all

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Files included in the binary distribution:
  See Cygwin package archive

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Port Notes:
- aaflip: No manual page. Copied from Debian.

----- version 1.3.0rc1-3 -----
- New release 2015-02-12 Jari Aalto
- Compile with libncursesw10

----- version 1.3.0rc1-2 -----
- New release 2013-09-11 Jari Aalto

----- version 1.3.0rc1-1 -----
- Initial release 2008-03-06 Jari Aalto

Cygwin port maintained by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net>
Copyright (C) 2008-2015 Jari Aalto; Licensed under GPL v2 or later