In article <C056J6.4ns@cs.uiuc.edu> joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) writes:
>I have some image files I downloaded which have extension .jpg
>
>The person uploading those files claimed that they are gif files. When I try to
>view them using pmgif (from hobbes), I get an error message saying that these are not gif files. I suspect that they are in jpeg compressed format. Could
>somebody tell me how I can view these files?
>
>1. Do I have to convert them to gif format? If so, is there a program on hobbes
> which does it?
>
>2. Are there any other viewers that view these files directly?
>
I dont know about any programs which view .jpg files directly, what I do
is use a program from hobbes called jpegv4.zip. This program takes a
..jpg file and converts it to a .gif file with the following format:
C:> djpeg -gif somepict.jpg somepict.gif
Then I use SVGA (or something like that) or cview (I think dcview20.zip)
to view the resulting gif file.
To convert several .jpg files at once, I use the following rexx script