Re: [pic] Font

In article <897...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite
<cfb...@southern.co.nz> writes
>
>Way back in 1994 I tried several times to tempt somebody to produce
>executables for MS-DOS from the following material which contains
>source code for Ascii Art Tools allowing rotation of existing Ascii
>art pictures.
>
>[ A UUEncoded file (asciitools.tar.gz) was included here. ]
>
well....
 from the source asciitools.tar.gz supplied by you ....
 .... out of curiosity ....
 early july i compiled asciitool.c on a sun running solaris,
 to check out its operation .... it does raw flips as shown
 below ...

 the unix scripts are good because they remap the characters,
 altho' they require awk, tr and sed.

 the raw flips are identical to those available using the
 AcidDraw program sent to news:alt.ascii-art by Mepha, tho'
 AcidDraw can't do rotation.

anyway....
 yesterday i compiled asciitool.c on a pc running dos using
 djgpp.

 in the unix scipts sed is only used to strip trailing spaces,
 however, the main character translation is done by tr, of
 which i have the slackware distribution source, so i'll have
 a go at compiling that for dos also.

 i already have a version of sed compiled for dos.

 i have awk for dos on an archive tape somwhere, altho' these
 are standard unix utilities and prob'ly available on your
 local ftp:server.

if you want....
 i can e-mail you ASC-TOOL.EXE (asciitool.c for dos) or i can
 post it to a binaries news group?
 perhaps even make it available at my website? ... whatever.

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these are the raw flips....
 (i hope Mark doesn't mind too much me using his ascii-pic)
 it has produced some pleasant results...

type skull.asc
        _  _
  ___ (~ )( ~)
 /   \_\ \/ /
|   D_ ]\ \/
|   D _]/\ \
 \___/ / /\ \
      (_ )( _)
        ~  ~
  mark


asc-tool -mh skull.asc
  _  _        
)~ () ~( ___  
 / /\ \_\   / 
  /\ \] _D   |
  \ \/]_ D   |
 \ \/ / /___\ 
)_ () _(      
  ~  ~        
        kram  
              

asc-tool -mv skell.asc

  mark
        ~  ~
      (_ )( _)
 \___/ / /\ \
|   D _]/\ \
|   D_ ]\ \/
 /   \_\ \/ /
  ___ (~ )( ~)
        _  _


asc-tool -r90 skell.asc

 )    )   
 ~/  \_   
_  /\  ~  
 (/\ \(   
 )\ \/)   
_  \/  ~  
 ~\]]/_   
 (_ _ (   
  \_ /  k 
 _ DD_  r 
 _   _  a 
 _   _  m 
  /  \    
   ||     
              


asc-tool -r180 skull.asc

        kram  
  ~  ~        
)_ () _(      
 \ \/ / /___\ 
  \ \/]_ D   |
  /\ \] _D   |
 / /\ \_\   / 
)~ () ~( ___  
  _  _        



asc-tool -r270 skell.asc

     ||   
    \  /  
 m  _   _ 
 a  _   _ 
 r  _DD _ 
 k  / _\  
   ( _ _( 
   _/]]\~ 
  ~  /\  _
   )/\ \) 
   (\ \/( 
  ~  \/  _
   _\  /~ 
   )    ) 

comment: nice neck-tie Donald Duck

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[][][ see yuz
[][][ colin
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