Re: Cat ASCII pics as SMS
From Anita Doobie - NOW <ton...@aol.com.net.org>
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· 12 May 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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>Subject: Re: Cat ASCII pics as SMS >From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) >Date: 5/12/00 6:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time >Message-id: <391...@news.vossnet.net> > >[posted and emailed] >On Wed, 10 May 2000 18:11:25 +0100, Pedro Lucas posted: >>Hi! >>Didn't know there were so many ASCII admirers. Congratulations for the >>fantastic Artists! >>I am desperately looking for small cats or cat faces in ASCII that I can >>send from a mobile phone short message - SMS (max. 160 chars.) >>Anyone knows where to look for them ? >> >>Please please reply to plu...@gmx.at > >[-generic response follows-] > >We at alt.ascii-art would be most happy to forful requests for most mobile >phone messages, but we first require some information...? > >What size is the screen (how many letters wide? how many letters tall?) > >Does it use a monospaced font? > You can find out by typing this: >III III| >MMM MMM| >In a monospaced font, those lines will be the same length. >We can't do it if the target phone isn't in a monospaced font. > >Is there anything special we can do? >Some requests have allowed simple animation where you scroll down the >message a page at a time to see the anim... > >What characters can we use? >Some phones have more characters than others. > >What characters can't we use? >Some of these phones don't seem to be able to manage some of the main >characters that ascii artists use a lot... \ | / > < . - ' > >Are there any special requirements? >eg Do you need some kind of space left for something? > >If you could give us as many details as possible I'm sure people will be >happy to respond. You mine-as-well ask if the person is a COMPLETE idiot as well, and not just the random so-so variety. ;) ObASCII: * <--- an astrick. -- .-~~-. (_^..^_) ||||AMC *Tony's ASCII Zine* http://www.zinezone.com/users/TonyCucchiara *Shockwave.com Version 2.0* http://v2.shockwave.com/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,df851774c30efb62 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: ton...@aol.com.net.org (Anita Doobie - NOW) Subject: Re: Cat ASCII pics as SMS Date: 2000/05/12 Message-ID: <200...@ng-cn1.aol.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 622763270 References: <391...@news.vossnet.net> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art X-Admin: new...@aol.com
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