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From: Philip Newton <pne-news-20020502@newton.digitalspace.net>
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Subject: Re: Wow ansii still lives,
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 21:09:50 +0200
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On Thu, 2 May 2002 14:09:23 +0100, "Fiend" <(NOSPAM)fiend@c4.com> wrote:

> I didnt think anyone still did ansii grafix, Im amazed I used to be in to it
> heavily in my Amiga days on the old BBS,

Over here we only do ASCII art -- "ANSIIs" also had control codes for
colours, animation, cursor positioning and stuff. But the basic
techniques for drawing pictures are, of course, similar.

> Outlook is crap for displaying them tho,

Good observation ;)

> Ive messed about with a perfectly good sig so it looks ok here, but I
> hope it dont look shite im your mail/news prog,

It looks bad. You need to create your ASCII art in a monospace
(fixed-width) font, NOT a proportional font -- then it will look similar
for anyone with a fixed-width font. Look for the FAQ (look under
http://groups.google.com/ , Advanced Search, newsgroup "alt.ascii-art"
and subject "FAQ"; the latest version is 3.0.3.05); it has a section
explaining how to use MS Outlook Express to read and write ASCII art.

>                         |
>                         |
>                       .���.
>                     { :::: }
>          (�`�.   { ::::::: }   .���)
>   (�`�.�(�`�.�{ } IXI { }�.���)�.���)
>     \     }\     `-        -�      /{      /
>      }      }                     {       {
>     ...Im gonna eat ya puppies...
>    ..and consume them like flies..
>                .--------------.
>        |-=-> fiend@c4.com <-=-|
>               `--------------�

That's not quite ASCII art, either, since it contains characters outside
the range 32..255; the FAQ contains a list of all ASCII characters, and
it's best to stick to those for maximum portability (and to be able to
call it "ASCII art").

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <nospam.newton@gmx.li>
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