.TH SIXEL 5 "May 21, 2014"
.SH NAME
sixel \- SIXEL format
.SH DESCRIPTION
SIXEL is a bitmap graphics format for terminals and printers introduced
by Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC).
Its data scheme is represented as a terminal-friendly escape sequence.
So if you want to show a SIXEL image file, all you have to do is "cat"
it to your terminal.
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.TP 5
Terminal requirements:
Several of DEC VT series, VT240/VT241/VT330/VT340/VT282/VT284/VT286/VT382
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RLogin (Japanese terminal emulator)
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tanasinn (Works with firefox)
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mlterm (Works on each of X, win32/cygwin and framebuffer version)
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XTerm (configured with --enable-sixel-graphics and lanuched with "-ti 340" option)
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yaft / yaftx (Works on framebuffer / X11 environment)
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DECterm
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Kermit for DOS
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WRQ Reflection
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ZSTEM
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR "img2sixel"(1), " sixel2png"(1), "
.LP
All About SIXELs, Sep 29, 1990:
.IP
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ftp://ftp.cs.utk.edu/pub/shuford/terminal/all_about_sixels.txt
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Displaying Sixel Image Files, 2014:
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http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/sg/doc.html
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