I've attached my cheesy C version of display.bas that is in the package.
You can use it view the faces. It uses libXg that came with 9libs-1.0,
so the graphics model is understandable by a human being.

I've got popi running on Plan9 also. I guess I should have ask
the more direct question:

Why isn't a tool like pico available now? not chic anymore?

At 10:14 AM 7/18/2002 -0400, anothy@cosym.net wrote:
>just out of curiosity, i grabbed the popi stuff from holzmann's
>page and gave it a shot. popi, the portable pico, popi, compiles
>fine out of the box, although it runs into the buffered IO issue
>common to most unix command line programs on Plan 9. i've not
>checked to see that it does sensable things with images, though,
>mainly because i don't know what to do with popi's output. 
>
>the compiled version of pico available from holzmann's page
>doesn't compile. i put no effort into figuring out why. the notes
>on holzmann's page are not encouraging in this regard.
>
>i was not able to pull the version of pico described in Rakitzis'
>message, so it's untested.
>
>anyone got anything to deal with pico (v10 picfile(5)) images?
>ア