scott@sage.uchicago.edu (Scott Deerwester) (06/07/90)
Is there a quick way to dump a tiff image to the screen? The ones I've got are 2BPP 1120x832, i.e. they exactly fit the screen. It's a pain to have to page through a bunch of files with Scene, Command-O, select the file, hit the Display button, click the mouse, yada yada. I'd rather be able to do something like: for f in *.tiff do echo -n "`basename $f .tiff`? " read yesno case $yesno in y) bitblit $f;; *) ;; esac done or maybe stick something like: bitblit `ls /usr/local/Images/*.tiff ~/Images | choose` in my .profile to get different screen background every time I log in, and where blitbit is something that one of you nice people is going to tell me about. :-) There *is* something called "blit" in /usr/bin, and it's used in /etc/rc to stick that spinning disk widget on the screen, but it's completely undocumented, as far as I can tell, and appears to only grok PostScript. Oh yeah, choose is a small program written by Bob Lewis, CAE Systems Division, Tektronix. Here's the synopsis: choose - randomly select one or more lines ------- Scott Deerwester | Internet: scott@tira.uchicago.edu Center for Information and | Phone: 312-702-6948 Language Studies | 1100 E. 57th, CILS University of Chicago | Chicago, IL 60637