X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,f1109e89c6ab007e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-25 13:03:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!prodigy.com!pd2nf1so.cg.shawcable.net!residential.shaw.ca!news2.calgary.shaw.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 24.78.145.92 From: lament Subject: Re: ascii art underground Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Message-ID: References: <069jpugvvq22vk3rsr4tv23d4endk4p0nu@4ax.com> <01hhrukpfq3b4v9kasgta9dg3cuoe733f9@4ax.com> User-Agent: Pan/0.11.3 (Unix) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Comment-To: "Bateau" Lines: 31 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:03:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.69.255.232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@shaw.ca X-Trace: news2.calgary.shaw.ca 1035576189 24.69.255.232 (Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:03:09 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:03:09 MDT Organization: Shaw Residential Internet Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:20151 On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:22:53 -0700, Bateau wrote: > ____ On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:48:46 GMT \__/___ Faux_Pseudo ran > through the > LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art > | waving an axe and screaming: > / \ >>3 = built in ansi driver == WTF? I have to have a special "driver" >> for ansi. I may be a bit over the top here but a driver manages the >> the interaction between software and hardware. Why would a driver >> be needed? > Because before the days of Jave ascii/ANSI editors were all DOS based. > Any the most popular ANSI editors (ACiDDraw, The Draw etc) still are. > And to view ANSI in DOS you need to have ansi.sys loaded in your > config.sys. > If you didn't know this and you didn't know who ACiD were and what they > did then you really have no say in how ascii groups should conduct > themselves and what are and are not "major issues for the scene." > Newbie. .... (I'm speechless) -- <(oO)> Cthulhu () ASCII ribbon campaign \ \/ \/\/\ \/ \/\/ /||\ Fhtagn! /\ against HTML mail /\/\./\/\/\/\./\/\