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From: cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: [NEW] headache.ANS  <- Please Repost!   -Why not start a ANSI
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Date: 1996/06/21
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Malcolm Smith (mal@iprolink.co.nz) wrote:
>cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite) wrote:
>
>>>Nope it wouldn't because it would all have to be UUencoded...ANSI
>>characters don't travel well across the Net...like Control Codes
>>and Escape Codes !  ANSI works OK on local BBSs.

>But if its just in a .ZIP file it should be ok shouldnt it?
>cheers

Yes sure, but the .ZIP file is a binary file composed of machine code
so it would have to be UUencoded anyway.

The place to post such a file would be:

               alt.binaries.pictures.ascii

Not much gets posted to that newsgroup !

Bye,