X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ef56fa7bfbafdca7 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine Subject: Re: ANSI/ASCII----Difference? Date: 1996/09/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185821833 distribution: world x-nntp-posting-host: xemu.demon.co.uk references: organization: 1st Canine Chapel of Bob Dobbs Dog (Church of the SubGenius) mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.ascii-art In article , Stephanie Struble writes >Can someone explain to me the difference b/w these two? I see ASCII art, >but a friend of mine referred to ANSI art. What's the diff? *ASCII* art contains _only_ printable characters, and so can: (1) be posted to newsgroups directly without special encoding; and (2) be vieweb on your newsreader directly, without saving and feeding into a viewer program for extended character sets. The other stuff with control codes for colour etc is *ANSI*. -- Regards, Woof Woof, Glug Glug-- X E M U * Who Drowned theJUDGe's Dog ? s p 4 \ |\ answers on ( alt.religion.scientology /~~~~~~~ @----, and on page (/x/clam/faq/woofglug.html -;'^';,_,-;^; : : :http://www.demon.co.uk/castle/x/clam/index.html _____________________________________*****_<--server has changed___ OT8 Cognition:"Source is the 8th Dynamic"[LRon Hubbard is God]BWAAH! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~