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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,f26c7cf5632d5fc9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: les...@aol.com (Lester5374) Subject: Re: Help me!! Date: 1998/04/20 Message-ID: <199...@ladder03.news.aol.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 346038641 References: <199...@ladder01.news.aol.com> X-Admin: new...@aol.com Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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