viewing AVI files...

[David A. Sinck]

\_ SMTP quoth Carl Parrish on 3/12/2002 08:05 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 07:17, David A. Sinck wrote:
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\_ > \_ SMTP quoth John (EBo) David on 3/12/2002 02:27 as having spake thusly:
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\_ > \_ a friend sent me some avi's they wanted me to view...  Can anyone tell
\_ > \_ me what apps can view them so I do not have to keep rebooting to view?
\_ > 
\_ I use aviplay but hint for future when you want to find the application
\_ to use try typing 'apropos <what your looking for>' at the command line
\_ in. For instance 'apropos mpeg' will show you all the mpeg players you
\_ have installed. 

...provided the apps have good man pages that provide that information
to apropos (aka 'man -k').  And if nothing suitable comes up, there's
always freshmeat.net.

David