X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,6c47b17dbb40bebb X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-04-23 09:15:52 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!atto!krueger From: krueger@atto.cs.umn.edu (Alan Krueger) Subject: Re: Look at my sig! Message-ID: Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: atto.cs.umn.edu Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept. References: <1994Apr19.074956.11564@News.WAU.NL> <2p1hen$b80@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 16:15:52 GMT Lines: 20 In article jsproat@uvsc.edu (JEREMY H SPROAT) writes: [stuff sacrificed to the bandwidth gods] >It's supposed to be an ANSI sig of some type...probably an animation. Not >that it means a whole lot unless you are on a MS-DOS machine. > >A word of advice to the owner of this sig: don't use it. In general, >mail readers don't handle ANSI codes very well, especially if the m.r. is on >a machine that is not a DOS machine (most of the net!) ...or someone with at terminal that can handle the extended codes. And "most of the net" isn't true--these extended codes are necessary to use non-English characters alongside the grossly biased ASCII set. It's a little presumptuous to assume that everyone on the net is like you, isn't it? -- William Alan Krueger | krueger@cs.umn.edu, krue0052@gold.tc.umn.edu Graduate Student | "I've never been the kind / To close an open mind" Computer Science Dept. | - "Free Time," Michael Penn University of Minnesota | "Hellllllooooooooooooooo, Nurse!" - Warner Bros.