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From: cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: ANSI/ASCII----Difference?
Date: 1996/09/29
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Stephanie Struble (strubles@peak.org) wrote:

>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 uses the character set up to Decimal 127 only...usually the
characters on your keyboard.

ANSI characters are Decimal 128 to 256 often referred to as the
IBM Extended Character Set. If you use those ANSI characters in
your pictures you have to UUencode them before you post them to the Net.

See my regular posting entitled "WARNING" !

Bye,