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# Term::ANSIColor - ANSI escape sequences in Ruby

## Description

This library can be used to color/decolor strings using ANSI escape sequences.

## Installation

Just type into the command line as root:

# ruby install.rb

Or if you prefer using Rake, try:

# rake install

Or if you want to use rubygems just type this and rubygems fetches the gem and installs it for you:

# gem install term-ansicolor

## Download

The latest version of this library can be downloaded at

- www.ping.de/~flori

The homepage of this library is located at

- flori.github.com/term-ansicolor

## Examples

The following executables are provided with Term::ANSIColor:

- cdiff: colors a diff patch

- decolor: decolors any text file that was colored with ANSI escape sequences

- colortab: Displays a table of the 256 terminal colors with their indices and nearest html equivalents.

- term_display: displays a ppm3 or ppm6 image file in the terminal. If the netpbm programs are installed it can handle a lot of other image file formats.

- term_mandel: displays the mandelbrot set in the terminal

Additionally the file examples/example.rb in the source/gem-distribution shows how this library can be used.

## Author

Florian Frank flori@ping.de

## License

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation: www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

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