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From: JamesDad <mewnews@softhome.net>
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Subject: Re: Wow ansii still lives,
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 16:20:23 -0400
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On 2 May 2002 19:19:28 GMT, Harry Mason <spam@no.spam> wrote:

>On Thu, 2 May 2002 14:09:23 +0100, Fiend <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, Outlook is crap for displaying them
>> tho, 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, anyone got any decent IBM
>> fonts so I can get in to it again.
>Here's what I think your pic was supposed to look like; it's hard to tell
>exactly because I don't have the same font. If it's not quite right, fix it up
>and post it again.
>
>                  |
>                  |
>                .---.
>              { ::::: }
>        (�`-.{ ::::::: }.-'�)
> (�`-.,(�`-.,{ } IXI { },.-'�),.-'�)
>  \     }\     `-   -'     /{     /
>   }      }               {      {
>   ...Im gonna eat ya puppies...
>  ..and consume them like flies..
>      .----------------------.
>      |-=-> fiend@c4.com <-=-|
>      `----------------------�

I ran your diddle through all of my fixed fonts, and on about 1/4 of
them (Letter Gothic Line, Terminal, Topaz New 2) the lower right dot
in the box came out as a straight vertical line and threw it off. On
the rest of them (Andale Mono, Courier, Courier New, Fixedsys,
Fixedsys TTF, Lucida Console, P0T-NOoDLE, Topaz and Xen) it looked OK.

I replaced the lower dots with the left-facing quote ` (on the same
key as the ~ on my keyboard) and it looked OK (or at least passable)
on all 12. If the ` isn't ASCII, back to the drawing board.

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