FYI - black vs white BG
Kick me for being 'slow', but I just discovered that most ascii pictures look MUCH better using a black background. I normally use black letters on white bg, but that produces an inverse-video effect for many things. (specially the gif>ascii stuff) -Jim- "hpterm -bg black -fg white"
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5a8e1d616ac3aef1,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-09 23:38:32 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!stern.fokus.gmd.de!ceres.fokus.gmd.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!fauern!news.th-darmstadt.de!terra.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de!news.dfn.de!gina.zfn.uni-bremen.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!news.hamburg.pop.de!easix!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hplextra!news.dtc.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!aites From: ait...@lvld.hp.com (Jim Aites) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: FYI - black vs white BG Date: 10 Feb 1995 07:38:32 GMT Organization: Hewlett Packard Lines: 6 Message-ID: <3hf55o$qq...@hpscit.sc.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hpsmpk.lvld.hp.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1.4]
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