X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,92f3135a9100d740 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-03-03 16:32:40 PST Path: gmd.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de!paul From: paul@heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de (Paul Foerster) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: INSECTS ANYONE?? Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 00:32:40 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Bergwerks- und Huettenmaschinenkunde Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <2l2qsh$p4q@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.130.193.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] >In article , > paul@heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de (Paul Foerster) writes: >>>************************************************************************ >>>The future isn't what it used to be. >>> ~Arthur C. Clarke~ >>>***ah199@Freenet.Carleton.CA******************************************** >> >>... your .sig is full of ants. Take one and magnify it a bit. Then it would >>look like this ... >> >> ** ** ** >> ** ** ** **** >> ****** or ******** depending on your character set. >> ** ** ** **** >> ** ** ** >> >Actually, with my character set, it would look like: > * > * * * > *** > ******* > *** > * * * > * >and this has eight "legs". Not an insect, I'm afraid. ... silly me i forgot this one. You're right! But this belongs to a character set which i haven't seen for a long time and so it didn't came into my mind when writing this. Now i use Windows on a PC to read all the news and i use the system font FixedSys(9). In this font the star "*" is like the right one of my first response. -- \|/ @ @ ------------------oOO-(_)-OOo----------------------------------------------- ... c u l8er ... Paul =:) try paul@heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de or foerster@heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de