Re: Inquiry
From Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
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· 4 Oct 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Lester5374 <les...@aol.com> wrote: >>From: neu...@shaw.wave.ca (NeuRaL) >>I was wondering if there were any ANSi newsgroups. I love ascii a >>lot, but would also like to expand my digital artistry :P into ANSi >>and maybe RIP. >> >>If you could help, i'd greatly appreciate it. > There are absolutely no ANSI newsgroups, unfortunately. Just ASCII. Of the >ANSI newsgroups that have ANSI in the title, there aren't any that I can read >in English (something Asian), or there is no message activity at all. > It makes me want to look-up some BBSs around here for an ANSI fix. Do that! BBS's are the places to go if you cannot live without ANSI. I don't like ANSI because it looks so garish and ill-defined. I've done one or two ANSI -> ASCII conversions using my wordprocessor and its find/replace function but it is too time consuming and tedious in the end result to justify doing it: 00000 0000 n########n s 000000||000000 O ## ^ ^ ## s 00000000||000000 ## -- -- ## ====#=== ####0##0# 000000000|00000000 O ## ) () ( ## ,, #] ##0#0 #### # 00000000||0000000 O## O ##==" #] ##0# * * #00# # 00000000|0000000 [##-------##nnn###] #00 O ### ""mm#0000000||00000 * [##### ###"""" 000#0 #00 ## 00000||0000 *** [## |##-------####n ##000##00### ## 0000|000 ... [##w-### #mmm ""###""" # ##"#" 00000 nHHHn==[#### ###------------] "m ### # ## 00 mmmmmmmmm[##nn########## ]mm ## m" """## HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH[-----]## ##"" ##""# n HHH%%%%%HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH[ ]HHHHH ## "nn" HHH%%%%%HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH[-----]HHHHH ## HHH%%%%HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH[ ]HHHHHH ##nn"nn""nHHH%%%HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH[___]HHHHHHHHH ## HHH%%%%HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ## HHHH%%%HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH "nn## %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ## n" IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||||||||000IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ## n" n" "n ||||||00000 "n ## nn" ##" "n" """n |||||000000 ###" n" ANSI->ASCII-cfbd- " The Caterpillar from Alice In Wonderland " Bye,
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5b765bc9bac0f011 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> Subject: Re: Inquiry Date: 1998/10/04 Message-ID: <907...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 397680440 References: <3616c1bd.24272889@news> <199...@ng116.aol.com> Organization: Southern InterNet Services User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.4 (sun4m)) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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