Re: why not replace individual programs? (xv)

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Radovan Garabik wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 08:58:48PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > Let's try this: everything that you can do with xv you can do with
> > either gqview or GIMP.
> 
> I just made some png files, and neither xzgv nor gqview can
> display them.  xv is fine. I am going to try to hunt the bug
> and send bugreport, but the poi nt in favor of xv is: xv is
> more mature, other viewers might have a bug or two..

Try imagemagick's display.

(Reminds me to send a letter to the editor to Linux Journal about
promoting xv like they have recently, instead of free software)