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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 1 Sep 1998.
Re: unix command line utility

Re: unix command line utility

Eric Friesen (eri...@friesen.org) schrieb:
> Hey, I know everybody here is a big fan of hand made ASCII art, but I am
> working on a program that I want to be able to incorporate ASCII art
> into. My program needs to be able to display an image over telnet on the
> command line. I need to know what the best ascii art generating program
> is out there that I can either get a x86 linux compiled binary for or the
> source code to. Any help would be so much appreciated.

Generating ASCII-Art is just done with a simple Editor (on Linux ie VI (or
better VIM) or emacs). Viewing it should be possible with any text-viewer,
"less" will do well :)

There are some programs which will convert GIF to ASCII, but this looks
usually quite bad.

	Faroul

-- 
                  Henning `Faroul' Peters  -  far...@gmx.net
                      Coming soon: NetWare for Nintendo.

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From: far...@gmx.net (Henning 'Faroul' Peters)
Subject: Re: unix command line utility
Date: 1998/09/01
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Organization: somewhere outa there...
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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