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Subject: Re: Dead or alive...
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On 2001-09-22 nowhere@nowhere.co.uk said:

   > > What I'm saying is that the creation and viewing of true,
   > > =classic= ASCII art requires access to the machine's default
   > > 80 x 25 text mode characters.
   >
   >But when you do that, it looks like shit. For instance, this:
   >  /
   > /
   >/
   >Looks crap in 80x25 bare-console.

'Crap' is, apparently, in the eye of the beholder.

80 x 25 text mode is the environment in which ASCII art
originated, and that's what it's supposed to look like.