Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998 06:21:26 +0100, Veronica Karlsson <dre...@on.spammer> wrote:

%Ronnie Deschenes wrote:
%> > Ronnie Deschenes wrote:
%[ 8< ]
%> >>I didn't want to get involved, but you guys are acting very petty here...
%> >
%> > Oh come on now...what do you reckon it is going to be like in this
%> > newsgroup when people DO make what they think are Ascii Art pictures
%> > and DO post stuff like the example below provided by the program's author ?
%
%MS Word adding DTP functions doesn't do this sort of thing to other
%people's computers:
%
%A normal xterm window:
%http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/ascii/garbage_heap/techstuff/what_an_xterm_window_should_look_like.gif
%
%An xterm window after somebody has written some control code to it:
%http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/ascii/garbage_heap/techstuff/what_a_control_code_can_do.gif
%
%Please read the warning about control codes that Colin posts here, and
%understand that it is not just paranoia, there is grim experience of
%crashed and generally fucked up computers behind that post!

	Grin.  In the hacking scene that looks like the result of one getting
"flashed", forcing you to close your terminal session and reopening another.  Or
worse.  One of the (many) reasons mesg should default to NO.  ;)

%http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/ascii/garbage_heap/techstuff/NOT_ascii4.gif

	My newsreader, FreeAgent, interprets the control codes in his picture as
they appear in your fourth GIF file. 

%http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/ascii/garbage_heap/techstuff/NOT_ascii6.gif

	This is basically what it looks like in an MS-DOS window.  It's pretty
funny that this text image consists strictly of only the forbidden characters.
It's either control codes or extended characters.  Nothing inbetween :)

	Also, after viewing, it's safe to assume that this rather flat, two
dimensional imagery will not be replacing the human ASCII artist any time soon
:)


%> > Most stuff I have seen on BBSs is pure ANSI not Ascii.
%> 
%> Exactly. No one has a problem with that, do they?
%
%No, so why not _keep_ it there? Why drag it here, where it causes
%problems for people?

	I'm as much of a proponent for ANSI as anyone.  Really.  But anything
posted other than real ASCII (see: FAQ) can potentially wreak havoc on someone
on the other end.  That's not cool.
-- enq...@npvq.bet

 RaD Man % ACiD Productions Founder % Artpacks Archive Founder

  Words to live by: " It's better to be controversial for the
  right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons. "

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