XV Release Notes

Table of Contents

  • What is xv
  • Support Policy
  • Installation Information
  • Silicon Graphics Legal Notice
  • Author/Builder's Notice(s)

    • What is xv ?

    xv is an interactive image display for the X Window System
    The xv program displays images in the GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM, X11 bitmap, Utah Raster Toolkit RLE, PDS/VICAR, Sun Rasterfile, BMP, PCX, IRIS RGB, XPM, Targa, XWD, possibly PostScript, and PM formats on workstations and terminals running the X Window System, Version 11.
    xv is a very nifty image viewer. Not only it can view images of various file formats, it can also perform many image enhancements on them, convert them to other formats, and display them in various ways.
    xv is shareware, not freeware as most of the packages here are.
    See details below.

    For more details on the features and operation of xv, see the documentation, or just try it. It is pretty intuitive to use, and is highly recommended.

    Author/Builder Notice(s):

    xv is shareware. The author of xv is John Bradley. Thank you John!

    Here's a short excerpt from the xv copyright notice:

    XV is Copyright 1989, 1994 by John Bradley Permission to copy and distribute XV in its entirety, for non-commercial purposes, is hereby granted without fee, provided that this license information and copyright notice appear in all copies. If you redistribute XV, the *entire* contents of this distribution must be distributed, including the README, and INSTALL files, the sources, and the complete contents of the 'docs' directory.

    Please install the original sources and read the entire README file.

    Electronic Mail regarding XV should be sent to one of these three addresses:

    Please do *not* send electronic mail directly to the author, as he gets more than enough as it is.

    xv was packaged for SGI by Robert Keller who is even busier :-).
    These relnotes were written by Ariel Faigon.

    Installation Information

    xv Subsystems

    fw_xv.sw.*
    Execution only environment. The xv executable.
    fw_xv.man .*
    Man pages, documentation, and release notes.
    fw_xv.src.*
    The full original source distribution.

    Installation Method

    All of the subsystems for this product can be installed using IRIX. You do not need to use the miniroot. Refer to the Software Installation Administrator's Guide for complete installation instructions.

    Compatibility

    This software is compatible with IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.x.