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None of the suggested alternatives show ASCII art. What I am looking for (and probably the thread starter too) is an application that shows the .nfo files like windows notepad with terminal used as font.
the suggestions above are a little complicated for me but through wine an .nfo viewer called jane displays the art perfectly. here is a sample of what jane can do
3. Download my script http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ots/scripts/nfoview
Put it for example in ~/bin or some place that's in your PATH and give it execute permissions. Edit the settings at the start of the file if needed.
4. Use it
Code:
nfoview file.nfo
For easy use, you can add a mime-type for .nfo extension and make a desktop file for nfoview.
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