[vox-tech] convert PNM image to PBM using pbmtools?

[Peter Jay Salzman]

begin nbs <nbs@sonic.net> 
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:49:51PM -0700, Ryan wrote:
> > On Monday 17 June 2002 11:28 pm, nbs wrote:
> > > Useful for making ASCII art:
> > >
> > >   djpeg foo.jpg | pnmscale .XYZ | pnmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmtoascii >
> > > foo.txt
> > 
> > You need AAlib. I watch TV with it sometimes......
> 
> I ran an SDL game on someone's box once, but I was logged in as
> some other user, not the one running X.  Since SDL couldn't connect to
> the X display, it actually fell back to ASCII mode (it must've been
> built with AAlibs upport.)  It was a _trip_  :)
 
you don't know what a trip is until you play quake under aalib!

pete