Re: asc-tool.exe (asciitool.c for dos) [1/2]
From CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk>
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· 12 Aug 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <902...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> writes >After some more work I've now solved most of the problems by using shortened >command lines in the BAT files ( I renamed asc-tool.exe to f.exe ) but >the command line in TB.BAT is still too long and so it will not >write the output to a file...only to the screen. > >The '_' character in TB.BAT is converting as ' ~ ' tilde but I guess that's >correct because _ does not have an upside-down equivalent does it? [][ yep ... same as ... > >Also CW90.BAT and CCW90.BAT are translating into letters not symbols. > >Just little temporary bugs I'm sure. :-) > [][ hmmm... i noticed that too ... havn't had time to check full [][ correctness properly yet > >Here's what I'm getting now: > >----------------------------------------------------------- > >Original: > > |\_/| > _____/ - - \ > /~____ \ ="= / -cfbd- > (______)___w)w) > > > >LR.BAT: > > |\_/| > / - - \_____ >-bdfc- \ ="= / ____~\ > (w(w___(______) > > > > >TB.BAT ( obtained by a screen dump, won't write to a file ) > > (~~~~~~)~~~m)m) > \_~~~~ / ="= \ -ctPd- > ~~~~~\ - - / > |/~\| > [][ these are fine .... same as i'm getting > >CW90.BAT: > >_ >l_ >l) >lll >lll >lll >lll >- l >l\_ >l n >l=-\ >\" l >-=-_ >\ n >-_\ > > > > - > = > \ > > > v > - > [][ so are the rest ... altho' they look a bit odd. [][ the vertical-bar char '|' wont work and i used 'l' instead. [][ the quote char wont work either so it got left out. [][ dos seems to have a problem with command-line length [][ and one solution is to use tmp files instead of pipes, thus :- @echo off : lr.bat - reverse ASCII pictures left for right : : usage = lr <in-file> <out-file> : asc-tool -mh %1 >~.~ tr-386 "()<>{}[]/\\.,`'LJZSE3dbqp" ")(><}{][\\/,.'`JLSZ3Ebdpq" <~.~ >~.~~ sed-386 "s/ *$//" ~.~~ >%2 del ~.~ del ~.~~ : [][ that'll allow an output file and reduce the command-line length [][ problem .... altho' i havn't tested the code i've just written, [][ and it lacks error-trapping. [][][ see yuz [][][ colin -- ( () /_ / /\) _/ /? .\ /\) /) .\ /_ /_ CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,3b3773b98dcfe7b5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: asc-tool.exe (asciitool.c for dos) [1/2] Date: 1998/08/12 Message-ID: <K1E$eBA...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 380546984 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: shieldwolf.demon.co.uk:193.237.26.148 References: <897...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <902...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <qPq...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> <iuG...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> <Ja7...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> <902...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <UAo...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> <902...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <NC1...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> <DE8...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> <902...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <902...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> X-Complaints-To: abu...@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 902960184 nnrp-10:16280 NO-IDENT shieldwolf.demon.co.uk:193.237.26.148 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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