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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 20 Apr 1998.
Re: Help me!!

Re: Help me!!

>This guy is on AOL.. I think he is referring to "Power Tools"
>a program to scroll 'macros' in AOL's chats...  If he goes

Of course, this gets REAL annoying after a while. The only usefull way to use
these graphics is if you are in a private room and scrolling with other people.
The odds of this guy going into chat rooms and disturbing every single room he
goes into are 60% good.

>to keyword "power tools", he ought to find it.  But please
>be aware that the ASCII art you find on the net will not
>look right on AOL.  AOL uses Arial font-- a proportional
>font.  ASCII art is made and viewed in a fixed-width font
>such as Courier or FixedSys..

Actually, ANYFONT will clean up most ASCII graphics *fairly* well (not
perfectly) to be viewed in AOL chat rooms and emails. I forget where I got it
though . . . and it is a Windows application, at least the version I have, I
don't know if a Mac version was made.

Here's an afterthought, I suppose if enough people on AOL got together with
PowerTools and went into a private room, they could have a nice little
graphical chat with everyone showing their new stuff since PowerTools can
change the chat font to a fixed-width font.

As always, I've been lurking around the newsgroup here, Joan, you are still #1.
:)
.
http://members.aol.com/lester5374/index.htm  -  Ansi home page 
FTP://members.aol.com/lester5374/ansi  - To download the ANSI format

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Subject: Re: Help me!!
Date: 1998/04/20
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