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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 14 Apr 1998.
Re: My new sig

Re: My new sig

Shimrod wrote:
> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> > Shimrod wrote:
> > > Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> > [ 8< ]
> > > > How I made the picture? I used a program called "banner" to make the big
> > >
> > > banner? Obviously not /bin/banner I suppose.
> >
> > The program in question is found at /usr/local/games/ on this system...
> > It may be the same, or it may be different...
> >
> > sister~>ls -l /usr/local/games/banner
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 bin         24576 Oct 14  1994 /usr/local/games/banner*
> 
> wing1[~](17) : ls -l /bin/banner
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          12288 Jun 10  1996 /bin/banner
> 
> Your's is exactly (and when I say exactly I mean exactly) twice as large.
> 

I have several programs that take up 24576 bytes. I think that it's some
kind of "standard box" that they put them in...

> > sister~>man banner
> wing1[~](18) : man banner
> [let's not lenghten this post needlessly, it's similar to that one]
>
> [ 8< ]
>
> this manpage says /usr/5bin/banner
> you said /usr/local/games/banner
> I have neither (If the 5's a typo in the manpage, I don't have
> /usr/sbin/banner either (/usr/bin/banner is the same as /bin/banner))
> 
> :-(   (We don't have a /usr/local/games/ at all)
> 

But that is just a directory. It's the actual *program* that matters,
right?

[ 8< ]
> > Why didn't I use "replace"? Because I wanted the dots to look like this:
> >
> > . . . . .
> >  . . . .
> > . . . . .
> >  . . . .
> 
> Then just use replace, and then shift every other line (while deleting
> at the end to make things line up again)
> 

Mmmmm.... Tried it.... I didn't get that to work very well...  :P

> > and not like this:
> >
> > . . . . .
> > . . . . .
> > . . . . .
> > . . . . .
> >
> > (see the difference?)
> 
> I do :-) (My eyesight is quite OK, thank you)
> 

=]

> > > Oh, btw, I checked, I couldn't find one single mis!
> > >
> > > Oh well, now all you have to do is fill the holes where you can look
> > > trough the pictures (like between his arms and his body)
> > >
> >
> > The second sentence shows an example of how wrong the first sentence
> > is...  :D
> >
> 
> :D
> 
> I didn't consider those misses, I thought you forgot (or had some artistic
> reason)
> 

Doesn't "forgot" count as a "miss"?

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