X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,16e75ad93a8fe2af,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-29 15:10:59 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!gagme.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: Talk: Welcome to rec.arts.ascii Date: 29 Aug 1994 17:06:17 -0500 Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services 312-282-8605 Lines: 342 Sender: boba@gagme.wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <33tm4p$jan@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com _ __________ __________ __ _________ | | / / ____/ / / ____/ __ \/ |/ / ____/ | | /| / / __/ / / / / / / / / /|_/ / __/ , | |/ |/ / /___/ /___/ /___/ /_/ / / / / /___ , \ |__/|__/_____/_____/\____/\____/_/ /_/_____/ / \O ______ ____ O/ |\/ /_ __// __ \ \/| | / / / / / / | / \ / / / /_/ / / \ _/ \_ /_/ \____/ _/ \_ ____ ____________ ____ ____ ___________ ____ _____ ______________ / __ \ / ____/ ____/ / __ \/ __ \/_ __/ ___/ / __ \/ ___// ____/ _/ _/ / /_/ // __/ / / / /_/ / /_/ / / / \__ \ / /_/ /\__ \/ / / / / / / __, // /___/ /___ _ / __ / __, / / / ___/ / / __ /___/ / /____/ /_/ / /_/ |_/_____/\____/(_)_/ /_/_/ |_|/_/ /____(_)_/ /_//____/\____/___/___/ Hello, and welcome to our ASCII art news group. This group was created to serve the community of ASCII art fans and artists. You are invited to post your articles on any topic concerning ASCII art, including: o All forms of ASCII art, like: - Standard ASCII art (line art, GIF conversions, 3-D pics, etc). - Non-standard ASCII art (animations, color pics, color animations). o Discussion about pieces of art. o Requests for specific pieces of art. o Answering requests. o Community effort at reworking a piece. o Questions and answers covering: - Creating and viewing ASCII art. - Locating FTP sites for ASCII art and related files. o Discussion about artists in the field. To make it easier for everybody, please put one of the following Subject IDs at the beginning of the subject line of your post: Line - Standard ASCII line art. Line pictures and large lettering. GIF - Gray scale image. Big - Wider than 80 columns (and optionally, longer than 24 lines). Animation - Animation. Usually uuencoded. Color - Color. Usually uuencoded. 3-D - 3-D art. Request - Request for a certain picture or type of picture. Question - A question concerning any of the ASCII art topics. Repost - Repost of a previously posted pic. Talk - Discussion, no pics included. Binary - Binaries (software like Figlet and Gifscii). Usually uuencoded. If you are following up a post, please change the Subject ID to reflect the contents of the post. This way if you are fulfilling a request, change: Request: Marilyn Monroe TO GIF: Marilyn Monroe This allows the readers the option of reading the group in a newsreader's selector, sorted by articles. They can then read only what is of interest to them, trusting the IDs to accurately identify the contents. Some people do not have the time (or money if they are paying by the hour or byte) to read everything in every group they like. If you have any questions, the FAQ will be posted shortly. It is posted here every Monday. Here are the questions answered in the FAQ: 1 What is ASCII art? 2 Why use ASCII art instead of a GIF? 3 What is ASCII art used for? 4 What are the different kinds of ASCII art? 5 What is the best way to view ASCII art? 6 How can I learn to make ASCII art? 7 Are there any ASCII tools? 8 Where can I get ASCII tools? 9 Where can I find ASCII art? 10 How do I use FTP, Gopher and the World Wide Web? 11 Can I get The Scarecrow's files via email? 12 Is it OK to copy ASCII art? 13 How do I make those big letters? 14 Where can I get Figlet? 15 How can I make Gray Scale pictures? 16 Where can I get Gray Scale converters? 17 How can I make better Gray Scale conversions? 18 What do those filename extensions mean? 19 What is 'uuencoding'? 20 How do I save and 'uudecode' a file? 21 How do I view animations and color images? 22 How do I put an animation in my plan? 23 How do I make a sig? 24 How do I have my sig automatically added to my posts and email? 25 What should I know about posting ASCII Art? 26 Where is this FAQ available? 27 Who made this FAQ? Tha ASCII ART FAQ is available from: o News groups: - rec.arts.ascii - alt.ascii-art - alt.binaries.pictures.ascii - comp.graphics - news.answers - alt.answers - rec.answers - comp.answers o FTP sites: -> Host: ftp.wwa.com Path: pub/Scarecrow File: FAQ -> Host: ftp.uu.net Path: usenet/news.answers File: ascii-art-faq.Z -> Host: rtfm.mit.edu Path: pub/usenet-by-group/rec.arts.ascii File: FAQ_-_ASCII_Art_Questions_&_Answers_(*.*_-_*_K) -> Host: ftp.mty.itesm.mx Path: pub/usenet/news.answers File: ascii-art-faq -> Host: src.doc.ic.ac.uk Path: pub/usenet/news.answers/rec.arts.ascii File: FAQ_-_ASCII_Art_Questions_&_Answers_(*.*_-_*_K) -> Host: ftp.sunet.se Path: pub/usenet/rec.arts.ascii File: FAQ_-_ASCII_Art_Questions_&_Answers_(*.*_-_*_K) -> Host: ftp.cs.ruu.nl Path: pub/NEWS.ANSWERS File: ascii-art-faq o Gopher Servers: -> Hast: jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca Menu Items: 10, 12, 1 -> Host: src.doc.ic.ac.uk Menu Items: 37, 30, 647, 3 -> Host: gopher.uni-paderborn.de Menu Items: 12, 8, 4, 647, 3 -> Host: cc1.kuleuven.ac.be Menu Items: 3, 3, 858 -> Host: gopher.Germany.EU.net Menu Items: 7, 1, 19, 14, 54 -> Host: gopher.win.tue.nl, port 70 Menu Items: 8, 6, 3, 4, 20, 53 o Finger by typing the following at a prompt on mony InterNet sites: finger asciifaq@wwa.com | more (you can read it a page at a time) OR finger asciifaq@wwa.com > faq (saves it to a file called 'faq') o World Wide Web: -> URL: http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba Select: -> SCARECROW'S WWW LINK -> ASCII ART FAQ o Email: -> Address: boba@wwa.com Subject: REQUEST FAQ If you are interested in getting files of ASCII art, there are plenty. There are files of art from one piece to hundreds of pieces. You can FTP, gopher, World Wid Web, or request them via email. o FTP sites; Scarecrow's FTP Site -> Host: ftp.wwa.com Address: 198.49.174.1 Path: pub/Scarecrow Folder Files Scarecrow All the Scarecrow's files SmallASCIIPics Steve Sullivan's Small ASCII Pics Gifscii Gifscii for many systems Figlet Figlet, utilities, and all the fonts I know of Color Color Graphics (and the color animation "Vortex") Animations Animations Misc Chevalier's Picture Stories Info 'How-To' and techniques files from Row, Normand, etc ANSI Escape Sequences, Emacs Code, etc FAQs, etc -> Host: mordor.ind.wpi.edu Path: pub/ascii/art/pictures Chris' FTP Site -> Host: ftp.ncsu.edu Path: pub/ncsu/chking/Archive WWW: http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/users/c/chking/HTML/HTMLs/ascii.html Contains all the Scarecrow's files, all of Steve Sullivan's files, and Gifscii for many systems. Jorn's FTP site -> Host: ftp.mcs.com Path: mcsnet.users/jorn/ascii-art Has Scarecrow's files, plus other ASCII art files, and the technically oriented "asciitech". -> Host: ftp.cs.ttu.edu Path: pub/asciiart/sullivan Has Steve Sullivan's Small ASCII Pics collections. -> Host: ftp.netcom.com Path: pub/vzvz/asciiart -> Host: nic.funet.fi Path: pub/pics/ascii pub/doc/humour/asciigfx Animations: -> Host: tuda.newcastle.ac.uk Address: 128.240.2.1 Path: pub/local/n1ka0/animation Contains dozens of animations -> Host: procyon.cis.ksu.edu Path: pub/vtmovies -> Host: sunsite.unc.edu Path: pub/multimedia/animation/vt100-animation -> Host: irisa.irisa.fr Path: pub/vt100 Color graphics: -> Host: ftp.uwp.edu Path: pub/msdos/demos/ansi o Gopher Servers: ASCII Art Bazaar -> Host: twinbrook.cis.uab.edu Menu Items: 11, 1 Over 12 megabytes, thousands of pieces in categories. -> Host: gopher.cs.ttu.edu Menu Items: 7, 1 o World Wide Web: Chris' WWW Page -> URL: http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/users/c/chking/HTML/HTMLs/ascii.html Scarecrow's WWW Link -> URL: http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba Has links to Chris' site, the Bazaar, and the Figlet server. Plus it has links to most ASCII art sites. o Mailing List: ASCII Art listserv list -> Email: listserv@ukcc.uky.edu Message: subscribe asciiart o FTP Mail Servers: -> Email: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com -> Email: ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu The creation of this group was the result of the work, advice, criticism, voting, and good wishes of many people, including: GREGORY GULIK NORMAND VEILLEUX ROWAN CRAWFORD MATT MESSINA STEVEN M SULLIVAN RON DIPPOLD DORIS JOHNSTON DAVID C LAWRENCE CHRISTOPHER KING PHIL BIRD CYBERFOX DAVID VRONA MIKE JITTLOV PATRICK A. TOWNSON JUDY ANDERSON IAN CHAI CYBERSPACE BUDDHA DAVE CORNEJO BILL PFEIFFER PAUL FAWCETT MEINDERT DE JONG JORN BARGER HOWARD ZIVOTOFSKY PAUL FOERSTER MICHAEL ROTHSTEIN GLENN CHAPPELL MATT E. THURSTON FELIX LEE And especially Gregory Gulik and David Vrona from WorldWide Access, for providing a home for rec.arts.ascii, the Scarecrow's FTP site, and my web pages. This group is mainstream (with pictures everyone can enjoy), and specialized (it is also about artists and how they work), and technical at times (aspect ratios, fonts, using software to make and view ASCII art). As for moderation of this group, it is very loose. I don't do much but check that posts are on-topic, and that the Subject ID relfects the contents of the post. I redirect posters of off-topic articles, and end flame wars by redirecting the flamers. And I don't use moderator's notes. Thank you for subscribing to rec.arts.ascii, we hope you enjoy it! Send any questions, comments, suggestions, etc., to the following address: boba@wwa.com -- _ _ | |_ ___| |_ __ _ __ __ ____ __ __ _ _ __ ___ _ _ _ | o\ o \ o\ o` |@\ V V /\ V V / o` | / c/ o \ ' ' | |_n_/___/_n_/__n_| \_/\_/ \_/\_/\__n_|o\__\___/_|_|_|