X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,34f423162f407e92 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson Subject: Re: ASC files? [anime] Date: 1997/06/10 Message-ID: <339D82D0.167EB0E7@sm.luth.se.nospam>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 247495382 References: <33c45dd8.8882435@news.flashnet.it> Organization: Junk e-mail gladly reported (I have got credit for chucking several spammers out of their accounts) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art The Right Rev. Felix Roy Mariposa, Prophet wrote: > > In article <33c45dd8.8882435@news.flashnet.it>, morfina@geocities.com wrote: > > > On 26 May 97 22:23:09 -0500, mcclure111 wrote: > > >I stumbled across an archive of ASCII art.. but it's all in files labelled > > >.asc and I can't open them. > > >What are these? > > > > Probably that files are just text files renamed *.ASC to be > > distinguished from other text files. Open them with note pad or with a > > simple dos editor... :) > > An appeal on behalf of Mac Users: Please don't use the .ASC format, > whatever it is. When SimpleText opens an .ASC file, all sorts of garbage > characters show up in it (like � and �). Normal text files are fine for > everyone. > > FRM Have you tried just renaming the files first? (from file.asc to file.txt) -- :) Veronica Karlsson ( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ ) ( llizard's fanclub: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/llpages )