X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9ba64c635b2340c1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-21 17:23:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.162.153.118!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail From: "CeeJay" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: Subject: Re: Dead or alive... Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 02:24:32 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3babda0a$0$237$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> Organization: TDC Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.243.165.90 X-Trace: 1001118218 dread02.news.tele.dk 237 62.243.165.90 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:7747 > A graphics-mode pointee-clickee operating system isolates the > user from the machine's default 80 x 25 text-mode characters. You still have the command prompt > The characters you see on a Win-Doze screen -- and in a Win- > Doze-based editor -- bear little relation to true ASCII. > They're prettied-up, graphically-generated 'pictures' of char- > acters; not real bare-metal ASCII. I don't agree .. they are just as ugly as everything else :)