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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Jan 1999.

                            
    
    
Re: Overtype, also known as overstrike
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: Overtype, also known as overstrike

                    

                        From Nate / DAC <nat...@southwind.net>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 16 Jan 1999 00:00                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
> Sandy Morton (sw...@atl.hp.com) wrote:
> : 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.
> 
>       Are you talking about a line through the character,
> or double strike?   I thought "overstrike" refers to a
> line through the character.

Actually a line through a character is called "strikethrough" if I remember
right.

"Overstrike" means to type more than one character in the same space, or the
same character several times, to produce shadows, differences in
intensity/darkness, or to combine two or more different character images.

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