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From: "Martin Double" <martin@mgdouble.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Has anybody seen an ASCII art like this?
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:59:54 -0000
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That is a very well put point of view Ville.
Just a couple of small comments:- My OCR software reads Cad Text, Book Text
and even Your Text, I therefore consider all of them to be text in this the
computer age. If you were to agree that ASCII is only true if constructed
using a manual typewriter or the like then I would be in complete agreement
with your philosophy. Otherwise, progress has already taken hold and there
will be no stopping it, however painful this may be!
The rest is not worth debating.

Regards
Martin
PS open your mind just a little., and let the light in.


Ville Jouppi <vjouppi@sci.fi> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:51:55 -0000, "Martin Double"
> <martin@mgdouble.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >That seems to be a great shame to me, a bit like wanting to paint with
both
> >hands missing?
>
> No no.. It's just more of a challenge if you have some limitations.
>
> >It is also a shame because I thought for a brief while that I had caught
the
> >ASCII art bug, but now you tell me I have not!
>
> It seems you've been inspired to create something completely different.
>
> >Perhaps I shall continue with my own newly discovered form of art, and
call
> >it Super-Ascii-Art.
>
> Maybe not Super-Ascii-Art, but something more along the lines of "Art with
> letters".
>
> CAD programs don't have anything to do with ASCII.. Once you put the
letters
> into the picture, they're converted into vectors and beziers.. No longer
> ASCII.
>
> What you're reading now is ASCII, as all the characters are represented by
a
> predefined byte. In your Cad program, you can't necessarily take a look at
the
> hex dump of the file and expect to find anything meaningful or
human-readable.
>
> Don't feel offended.. You've discovered something new while we're sticking
to
> something old we've become to like.