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# ansi
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Show ANSI art in a modern terminal, or turn it into plain text.
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An `.ans` file is CP437 text with ANSI colour and cursor codes, laid out for an
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80-column BBS terminal that wraps it. Converting it with `iconv` gets the
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characters right but not the layout: a lot of art has no line breaks at all, and
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much of it moves the cursor around. `ansi` draws the file into a grid the way a
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BBS terminal would, then writes the grid out as UTF-8 lines.
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```console
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$ ansi piece.ans | less -R # in colour
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$ ansi --mono piece.ans > piece.txt # no colour, coloured areas as shading
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$ ansi --plain piece.ans # the characters only
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$ ansi info piece.ans # title, artist, group, date and size
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$ curl -s https://16colo.rs/pack/dd26/raw/dd-cola.ans | ansi
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```
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`--mono` is for places that show no colour, like newsgroups and mail. Each
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coloured area is redrawn by how bright its colour looks, so art built from
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coloured spaces keeps its shape instead of going blank.
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It follows the SAUCE record for the width, shows blinking backgrounds bright
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(iCE colour), and reads standard input when given no file or `-`.
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## Install
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One C99 file, no dependencies.
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```console
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$ make
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$ make install # into ~/bin and ~/share/man/man1
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$ make install PREFIX=/usr/local
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```
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## Licence
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GPL-2.0. See `LICENSE`.
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