Subj : xbin
To   : MRO
From : echicken
Date : Tue Mar 08 2022 14:35:53

  Re: xbin
  By: MRO to echicken on Tue Mar 08 2022 03:56:40

 MR> would be great if we could use .png files in our bbses but it's probably
 MR> not possible. that's too bad. 

Conversion on demand is probably the way to go, and doable with existing command line utilities (eg. img2sixel). I'd have it produce copies for each terminal size it encounters and reuse those files later. An at-code could invoke the converter/loader and then display the image, and the sysop wouldn't have to think beyond dropping the PNG somewhere on disk.

There's no technical reason SyncTERM couldn't show a PNG directly, but I doubt if that'll ever happen (for a variety of reasons).
  
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