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From: Malcolm Waltz <waltz@netaxs.com>
Subject: Re: conversion programs? Easy answers
Date: 1996/10/07
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On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Carrico wrote:

> h9218778@hkuxa.hku.hk (Ko Yuet                   Login name  h9111706
> In real life  Chan Tak Wing) wrote:
> 
> >AndreasT.Irmer wrote:
> >: Hi there,
> 
> >: does anyone know a good conversion program from .gif/.bmp or any other
> >: graphics format into nice ASCII-code?
> 
> >i would like to know also
> 
> Here's an obvious to me) idea:
> just use a painting or drawing program that supports text; this may be
> difficult though...
> or:
> 
> If you're using windows just press the printscreen button, paste it to
> a painting or dtawing program, and then crop it.
> 
> 
> 
Read the quiestion again!  That's not what it asks!

This question has been asked and answered fairly recently.

>Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 13:32:36 -0700
>From: "J. Melusky" <whatfer@u.washington.edu>
>To: Tan Boon Phing <eng40427@nus.sg>
>Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
>Subject: Re: gif-ascii converter
>
>Hi, Let me know if any of these are not valid. Gracias, Jon
>
>Host: ftp.wwa.com
>Address: 198.49.174.1
>Path: pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii
>URL: ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii
>or
>Host: ftp.ncsu.edu
>Path: pub/ncsu/chking
>URL: ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/ncsu/chking
>or
>Host: usc.edu
>Path: archive/usenet/sources/comp.sources.misc/volume30/ascgif
>URL:
>ftp://usc.edu/archive/usenet/sources/comp.sources.misc/volume30/ascgif
>or
>Search http://www.shareware.com's Macintosh directory for 'ascii.'