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From: boba@gagme.wwa.com (Bob Allison)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii
Subject: Re: Talk: Non-standard ASCII art
Date: 23 Jun 1994 13:13:35 -0500
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In article <2uar38$dct@gagme.wwa.com>,
Soeren M Soerries <soeren@beansidhe.westfalen.de> wrote:
>
>boba@gagme.wwa.com (Bob Allison) writes:
>>Tony Nugent <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>Is there any art using the full complement of IBM 8-bit characters?
>>>(Or does this specifically make this "non-ascii" art?)
>
>>   I imagine that it would be called non-standard ASCII art.
>
>You would call it ''IBM-ANSI'' and I am sorry, but if want to post anything
>containing IBM 8-bit characters, you would have to uuencode it first.
>
>IBM-ANSI looks really really great on IBM machines, but on the net, there
>are actually rather few of those.  NON-IBM machines tend to get screwed
>up by many of those characters, which are used by them as control characters.

   You are correct of course.  I was refering to standard and non 
standard ASCII art.  Standard ASCII art being anything that can be 
immediately viewed with text in a post or email message (or whatever).  
And non standard ASCII art as being anything that requires any 
processing, saving, cat'ing, etc.

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