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From: wyv@cris.com (wyv)
Subject: Re: ascii for sale
Date: 1996/11/17
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In article <olson-1511962040450001@pmtn1ip27.ici.net>, Jeremy J. Olson 
(olson@ici.net2) said:
>
>~ Bah. :) I think anybody is capable of making their own ASCII. :P Quick 
>~ tutorial: Load up MS-Word, Notepad, Wordpad, or any program with multiple 
>~ fonts, and write out a word. Then, using the popular $ character, just 
shape 
>~ a word of any font. $'s are usually used for the bulk of the characters, 
and 
>~ commas, apostrophes, periods, etc. are usually used for rounding the
>characters 
>~ off.
>~ Much simpler than getting somebody else to do it for you. :>
>
>I can do it. See?
>
etc. etc.

I like drawing ASCII. :) For all you people with a fixed-width font, I'm bored 
enough to paste the ASCII of my ircII script:

         ``""@$$$$$$$$$$@s.              ,s@$$$$$$$$$$@""''
              `@$$$$$$$$$$@s.          ,s@$$$$$$$$$$@'
                 `$$s`"$s.`',$s.    .s@$$$$$$$$$$@'
                   `@$ $$$  """""' '""""`@$$$$$@"'
  ,s@$$@s.   ,s@$$@s.  $$$ .`"$s. `"$@,s$@s.`',s@$$$@s.   ,s@$$@s.
 ,$$$""$$$. ,$$$""$$$. $$$ $. $$$ $ $$$$"$$$. $$$$""$$$. ,$$$""$$$.
 $$$$  $$$$ $$$$  $$$$ $$$ $$ $$$ $ $$$' $$$$ `$$$. `"@$ $$$$  $$$$
 $$$$.s$$$' $$$$       $$$ $$ $$$ $ $$$  $$$$  `@$@s.    $$$$,s$$$'
 $$$$       $$$$  $$$$ $$$ $$ $$$ $ $$$  $$$$ $. `@$$@s. $$$$
 `$$$.      `$$$.s$$$' $$$. " $$$ $ $$$,s$$$' $@s. `$$$$ `$$$.
  `"@$$$@s.  `$$$$@"'  `$$$. ,$$$ $ $$$$$@"'. $$$$s$$$@'  `"@$$$s.
       `$$$   $$$'   ,$s `$$ $$$' $ $$$.  ,$$ $$$'            `$$$
      ,s$$'   `$$s. ,@$",s$' `$@s.$.`$$@s. s. `$$s.          ,s$$'
                   ,@$$ssss@$ss   "$ssssssss$$s.
                 ,s@$$$$$$$$@'       `@$$$$$$$$@s.
               ,s@$$$$$$$$$@'         `@$$%wyv%$$$@s.
          ,,ss@$$$$$$$$$$$@'           `@$$$$$$$$$$$@ss..

The idea of putting that "X" behind the "eclipse" was taken from an older 
BitchX logo/ASCII, but I still made it. :)
And btw, it looks best with a black background and gray/white text... Not sure 
why, it just does. :P
I've also done a few more ASCII's, such as here's one I did for a friend:

                         ,$   s.             ,$"                    ,$"
                         $$. ,@$             $$                     $$
    ,s@$$$$@s.           $$$$$@'            ,$$.                   ,@$.
,s@$$$$$$$$$$$@.   ,s@$$$$$$$@.             @$$@            ,s$$$@s$$$@.
          `"@$$$$$$$$$$$@$$$$$$s.         ,s@$$$        ,s@$$$@"@$%wyv%$
              `@$$$$$$"'   `@$$$$$@.    ,s$$$$$'  ,$' ,@$$$@"'   `$$$$$'
               `$$$$$$    ,s `"@$$$$$s,s@$$$$"' ,s@$ ,@$$$$'      $$$$'
                $$$$$'   ,$$.   `@$$$$$$$$$@'   ""'  @$$$$'       $$$$.
                $$$$$   ,@$$$$.  `$$$$$$$$$'  `"$$$$ $$$$$        `"@$$@s,.
                $$$$$. ,$$@'"$@.  $$$$$@$$$s.  ,$$$' $$$$$
                $$$$$$ $$$' ,$$$ ,$$$$$"$$$$$s $$$$  @$$$$
                `$$$$$ $$$  $$$$ $$$$$$ `$$$$$.`$$$s.`$$$$$
                 $$$$$ $$$  $$$',@$$$$'  $$$$$@ `$$$$.`$$$$.       ,s@$$@"'
                ,$$$$$ `@$,.$$' $$$$$'   `$$$$$.  `@$$.`$$$$s.    ,@$$$'
         `"@$@s,$$$$@'   `$$@' ,$$$$'     `@$$$@s.  `$$ `@$$$$@s@$$$@'
            `"@$$$@"'   ,s$',s@$$@"'        `"@$$$$s. "   `"@$$$$$@"'

"ToXiC", if you can read it. Oh well, I'm bored of pasting these here now, so 
off I go...
:)

wyv