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

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

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

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.

Florian Frank [email protected]

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