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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 17 Feb 1998.
Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.

Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.

Tony Relyea (are...@vt.edu) wrote:
>	You wanted an example?  Here ya go.  I created this barn in <10
>minutes.  The only limitation was my lack of artistic inclination.  I cr=
>eated
>it entirely with ASCIIART, and I did not touch it up with a text editor.=
>  If
>you do not believe me then get the program
>(http://www.tidalwave.net/~Shawg/ruw/games.html#asciiart) and try for
>yourself.  Note however that this particular picture was designed using =
>the
>REGISTERed version.  The unREGISTERed version lacks the cut & paste edit=
>
>features.

[...snip...]

> Anyway, here is an example drawn COMPLETELY WITH ASCIIART!
>
>                               =D2
>                           >=C4>=C4=D7=C4=C4
>           =F4                   =BA                      =F4
>         =DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
>=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
>=DB=DB=DB=DB
>        =DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
>=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
>=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB
>       =DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
>=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
>=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB
>      =DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
>=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
>=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB
>     =DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
>=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
>=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB
>        =B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=
>=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=
>=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
>        =B0=B0=C6=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=B2=
>=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=B5=B0=B0
>        =B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B2=
>=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
>        =B0=B0=B0=B0=F9=F9=F9=F9=B0=B0=B0=B2=
>=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
>        =B0=B0=B0=F9 =B3  =F9=B0=B0=B2=B0=B0=
>=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
>        =B0=B0=B0=F9 =C0=C4=C4=F9=B0=B0=B2=B0=
>=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
>        =B0=B0=B0=B0=F9=F9=F9=F9=B0=B0=B0=B2=
>=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
>        =B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B2=
>=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
>        =B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B2=
>=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
>        =B0=B0=C6=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=B2=
>=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=B5=B0=B0
>
>Tony
>http://www.tidalwave.net/~Shawg/ruw/


Now what the hell is that ?  

On my screen it looks like garbage in the form of lines of =B0=B0=B0 
sequences plus some Extended Characters created with the ALT key.  

Yikes !!!  

Bye,

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From: cfb...@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.
Date: 1998/02/17
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