Display DOS ASCII Arts (e.g. NFO Files) on Linux

In order to properly display NFO files, their content has to be converted to your local codepage.
In my case that is UTF-8. The conversion will be done with iconv. To get the solid block characters I chose the input codepage IBM 437.
So the resulting command is:

iconv -f 437 -t UTF8 dafile.nfo | less

For a list of available formats type:

iconv --list

It is handy to have this command as a script. That would be something like this:

#!/bin/bash
# Display DOS ASCII Arts (e.g. NFO Files)

if [ -z "$@" ]
then
  echo "No filename given."
  echo "Usage: `basename $0` filename(s) [filename(s)]..."
else
  iconv -f 437 -t UTF8 "$@" | less
fi

exit 0

You can download this script from my Box.net share.

Click on the screenshot to view a larger version.

ChangeLog

[2006-04-23: Add tags.]
[2007-05-23: Download link.]