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SIXEL(5)		       File Formats Manual			SIXEL(5)

NAME
     sixel - SIXEL format

DESCRIPTION
     SIXEL  is a bitmap graphics format for terminals and printers introduced by
     Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC).  Its data scheme is represented as a  termi-
     nal-friendly  escape  sequence.  So if you want to show a SIXEL image file,
     all you have to do is "cat" it to your terminal.

     Terminal requirements:
	  Several	     of 	   DEC		  VT		 series,
	  VT240/VT241/VT330/VT340/VT282/VT284/VT286/VT382
	  RLogin (Japanese terminal emulator)
	  tanasinn (Works with firefox)
	  mlterm (Works on each of X, win32/cygwin and framebuffer version)
	  XTerm  (configured with --enable-sixel-graphics and launched with "-ti
	  340" option)
	  yaft / yaftx (Works on framebuffer / X11 environment)
	  DECterm
	  Kermit for DOS
	  WRQ Reflection
	  ZSTEM

SEE ALSO
     img2sixel(1), sixel2png(1),

     All About SIXELs, Sep 29, 1990:

	    ftp://ftp.cs.utk.edu/pub/shuford/terminal/all_about_sixels.txt

     Displaying Sixel Image Files, 2014:

	    http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/sg/doc.html

				  May 21, 2014				SIXEL(5)

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