SIXEL(5) File Formats and Configurations 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 terminal-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)
