X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,c1b637a0309543bb X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Subject: Re: ASCII Rose needed Date: 1996/10/05 Message-ID: <53641f$5r4@orm.southern.co.nz>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 187766201 references: <52qbri$ht7@peabody.colorado.edu> <52rn1e$nc7@orm.southern.co.nz> organization: Southern InterNet Services newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation Thomas Tien (tien@TCNJ.EDU) wrote: >On 1 Oct 1996, Colin Douthwaite wrote: >> Joe Pearse (pearse@ucsub.Colorado.EDU) wrote: >> >> >I know this has probably been posted many times before, but I would >> >appreciate it if someone would send me an ascii rose. Thanks. >> >> You are askiing in the wrong newsgroup. >> >> Try alt.ascii-art...it's roses, roses all the way ! :-) > > Actually there is one animated rose, Colin. :) (Though it does >appear people are looking for "plain" roses and posting to the wrong >newsgroup). In any case, it's attached, uudecoded and gzipped (and I >hope my newsreader does not base64-encode this). One can probably just >uudecode this message and then zcat directly, and if that doesn't work Kai >Voelcker explains the procedure quite well in his posts... You need a minimum of free 330k RAM to decompress a .z or .Z file and some of us still use PC/XT machines or even Commodore 64s. Don't know anyone on the Net using a Sinclair 80 though. Wasn't it Bill Gates who said 64k RAM is enough for anybody ? That must have been before Unix ! :-) Bye,