X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,19208eb261ff39d3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-21 09:51:57 PST Sender: Joe Fischer Message-ID: <3d3ae3cb_1@news.iglou.com> From: Joe Fischer Subject: Re: [PIC] Clock Works Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: User-Agent: tin/1.5.9-20010723 ("Chord of Souls") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.7 (sun4m)) NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.107.41.17 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.107.41.17 Date: 21 Jul 2002 12:39:39 -0400 X-Trace: news.iglou.com 1027269579 192.107.41.17 (21 Jul 2002 12:39:39 -0400) Lines: 44 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.107.41.17 Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!198.6.0.8!uunet!ash.uu.net!news.iglou.com!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:18410 Faux_Pseudo wrote: : -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- : Hash: SHA1 : : Hopefully this won't line wrap. : : /\\ /\ /| ,' . - - . . . . . Usenet is supposed to be an 80 column format, but an original post should not be more than 77 columns (characters per line), because people viewing ASCII pictures in pure DOS and Usenet mode need a hard "carriage return and line feed" character and newsreaders and some editors will wrap the 80th character. I manually moved the end of the first line down, and it looks like the first 15 or 20 lines have about 120 characters, and this is how much would have wrapped in a reply quote; . . . " . ' The lines from 15 or so to about line 40 or so seem to be short where no characters are needed, so no problem there. But from line 40 or so to the bottom of the picture, the long lines appear again. Both windoze and linux do not use the two character line termination characters that DOS does, so ASCII will work best on all systems that support at least 80 characters per line if a hard carriage return is placed at column 78. This may not take advantage of wider screen formats available today, but it will make ASCII pictures display properly on all systems (except older 64 column displays). Joe Fischer Wanted For Murder; Art ANSI was killed by Willy WinDoze and Al InterNet. Remembrances are only available at a few sites, and ANSI artists may soon be forgotten. A view of the past is only possible in modus DOS with ANSI.SYS or FANSI.SYS installed. -- 3