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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 14 Jan 1999.
Re: Overtype, also known as overstrike

Re: Overtype, also known as overstrike

Spunk1111 wrote:
> Overstrike is a common technique for
> typewriter art...  I haven't seen it in
> ASCII art at all...

Actually, way back when, the first ascii art that was
designed to print out on the old 132 column line printers
used overstrike for shadowing a lot.

Somewhere I have a great collection of the old pictures,
just no way to print them out anymore.  :^(

Sandy

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From: Sandy Morton <sw...@atl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: Overtype, also known as overstrike
Date: 1999/01/14
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