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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

To set up links to work with seejpeg or zgv as a viewer, ESC, S for setup, 
file associations, change xli and xli -quiet to zgv or seejpeg.  (zgv -z 
if you want the image to fill the page;  seejpeg -g if you want greyscale, 
etc.).  Then change it from viewing under X to viewing in a console - you 
need to X both parts referring to console or you cannot exit the viewer 
while in links.

I also changed terminal options to un-X color so that links will show up 
better in mono.

The only .jpg in BL3 (earth.jpg in mgp) does NOT display with seejpeg but 
the other jpegs I checked do so.  With earth.jpg I got a complaint about 
not being able to display in 32K/16M color on both cards (with 2-4MB video 
RAM).  zgv works on earth.jpg.

The swap.zip file that comes with BL3 (unzips to about 6MB) is only about 
6K zipped so I was able to copy it to my second disk along with the .gz 
file system.  I can unzip it (with busybox) to a hard drive, cd to where 
the swap.img is located, and type swapon swap.img.  So I have two 
self-contained disks that will work on any computer with VGA chip to 
browse with images in a 4MB RAMdisk with 4M additional RAM (without X), 
with no hard disk, but is likely to crash unless you have some sort of 
swap file when using links even without a viewer. Probably even a floppy 
disk with swap.img would work (slowly).

We are swapping around hard drives (someone gave us his old Apple 750MB 
which works as IDE) after which I will try this in 8MB RAM.  Seejpeg is a 
bit slow even in much more RAM, on small images, don't know why.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org