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From: pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org>
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Subject: Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:39:50 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-06-23, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> On 2025-06-23, pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2025-06-23, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I would use xv (by John Bradley) for that. It used to be in most Linux
>>> distros, but does not seem to be anymore.  More information: 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software)
>>
>> I remember xv (and used it and loved it). I had wondered where it went.  
>>
>> The little swimming fish time-passing sprite was cool.
>>
>> Thanks for the tip.
>
> I still use xv whenever possible.  Apparently, though, I never
> tapped its full potential.
>
> Unfortunately, xv cannot display progressive JPEGs,
> making it useless for a growing percentage of pictures.
>
> Here's a thought, though - if a group of photos was taken in the
> same time frame (e.g. that ski trip), you could bring them up
> in a file manager (e.g. thunar).  The camera probably assigned
> them a consecutive block of file names; if not, and the date
> stamps are intact, you could sort the list by date to group
> the files together.  That makes it easy to select a single
> block of photos to cut and paste.
>

Good thought.  These are old slides that I scanned, though. The only info
for them is my feeble memory.  But I'll keep that trick in mind.

pH