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From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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Subject: Talk: ascii library on a cd-rom disk??? is there any???
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Broddi Reyr Hansen <brh@rhi.hi.is> wrote:

>I was wondering about it....hmmm...  I like this art, just downloaded some
>stuff and I liked it :)  Its fun making this little pics and viewing them,
>but as we all have limited hard disk space I thought if somebody put out
>a hole cd-rom disk only with ascii pics.  We have disks with gif pictures,
>pcx, tiff...et cetera...  why not ascii???

   It's an interesting idea ... a CD-ROM full of ASCII art.  It could 
have all known ASCII art, all the sigs people are using, tons of sig 
blanks, pre-made birthday greetings, all the chatter about ASCII art on all 
the groups, and anything else you could think of to fill 600 megs 
uncompressed.

   The problem is that there's no money in it.  It would have to be done 
by somebody who's into the art, not the money.  It's now possible to have 
single copies of CD-ROMs made.  And even short runs are cheaper than they 
once were.

   Until then, if somebody actually wanted some ASCII art on disc, I 
imagine a few megs could be compressed onto an HD floppy.  ASCII art 
compresses fairly well (about 3:1).

--
  .  . .. ... .:.. ...:..::.:::.::::::::.:::.::.:..:...:.. ..:. ... .. .. .  .
 ------  ---=- .=-==-= .=#==##= :=##### .##=#= =##==#= . ==-=--  -=-  ---  ---
------- ---=-= -=-====# =#==#=#= #=###= =#=#== #=#==##= -=-==--- =-- .=--  ---
---     ---  . =-= :=-= -== :=## ### :::##= :..=#= .=== ==- .=-- -=-  ---  ---
------  -=- .  -=-==-== =#==##= :#=### :##= .:.#===#== .-=- .-=- =-=  -=-  ---
 ------ --- .. --==--== ==##== .:####= :=#= ::.=#=#== ..==-  --= -=- .---  ---
    --- =--  . -== .=-= #=# =## :### :::##= :..#=# === .=-- .-=- =--  =--  ---
------- ----=- =-= .-== =#= :##= =##### =##==# =#= .#== ==--=--- -=-----------
------   -=-== -=- :=-= =## .=## #=###= .##=#= ##= .=#=  -==--=  .=-=--=-----
  .  . .. ... .:.. ...:..::.:::.::::::::.:::.::.:..:...:.. ..:. ... .. .. .  .