X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,47b54f7dfeef6923 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-09 06:22:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!lios!news.gweep.ca!not-for-mail From: Philip Newton Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: Re: [DIS] Hello Sailors! Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 14:22:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: very little Lines: 47 Sender: robomod@lios.aq2.gweep.ca Approved: rec-arts-ascii-moderator@gweep.ca Message-ID: <2hjm6vgor13p32vba7fq0s1k9p7lfjnt75@4ax.com> References: <9a6c9942.0303070934.72c2a3d8@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: lios.aq2.gweep.ca 1047219769 8074 127.0.0.1 (9 Mar 2003 14:22:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@lios.aq2.gweep.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 14:22:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 15:22:40 +0100 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-041-094.arcor-ip.net (145.254.41.94) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1047219761 66247661 145.254.41.94 (16 [11583]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 X-Gweep-Cleanmime: quoted=23% Xref: archiver1.google.com rec.arts.ascii:287 On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:34:59 +0000 (UTC), nerd42@msn.com (Nerd42) wrote: > I like ASCII art! I have my own MUD now, at > "telnet://nerd42.is-a-geek.net:4242" that will use alot of it. (my MUD > is still in the "coming soon" stages, it isn't up all the time just > yet) This group might be very helpful. Is it okay to just use any > ASCII art i find here? Yes. No. It depends. Read the alt.ascii-art FAQ (at http://xrl.us/du9 , for example, which is a short link to Google Groups's version of news:hxSYWFA+r8Y+EwnA@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk ); in particular, for this question, section 10 "Can I copy or post that ASCII picture for myself?". Briefly: you can often use the picture as long as you make no money off it and as long as you keep the author's initials, if any. But do read the full story in the FAQ. (See also the ASCII Art FAQ ten commandments.) > Is there anybody stupid enough to try to copyright ASCII art? It's not stupid. It *is* art, and it *does* take time and talent. It's worth being copyrighted. > And why does windows not show all the ASCII characters? Windows *does* show all ASCII characters. Maybe your opinion of what's an ASCII character is different from ours? See section 3 of the above-mentioned FAQ. Printable ASCII characters have codes from 32 to 126, inclusive (space to tilde). 0-31 and 127 are control characters and not printable; characters with codes above 127 are not ASCII. This includes characters such as � or ' -- they're not ASCII. Please read the FAQ! Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.