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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 7 Oct 1998.
Re: Getting re-started

Re: Getting re-started

.----- On Thu, 01 Oct 1998 02:24:22 GMT, Edamoth posted:
|Well, let's pretend that I ignore the odd 'Stien (R)  war going on and
|want to get back into the group.  Now then, back in my day, I just did
|all this stuff with pico, a text editor on my old UNIX shell.  Now,
|alas, I'm back to a PPP account and am tired of wrestling with Notepad
|to make a pic.  Does anyone know of an easier text editor to use for
|creating ascii art?  As in, one that'll allow you free movement with
|the cursor keys?  Thanks plenty.
'-------------------------

Windows95: Notepad                                   (Comes with Windows!)
           EDIT.COM                                  (Comes with windows!)
           MicroEMACS
           EditPad
           PFE32
           UltraEdit                                   (www.ultraedit.com)
           TextPad                           (www.textpad.com - shareware)

Windows3:  Notepad                                   (Comes with Windows!)
           MicroEMACS
           PFE
           UltraEdit                                   (www.ultraedit.com)

TextPad (Win95/98) is my favourite - I use it for all of my asciis. It does
free cursor movement and block cutnpaste which is very very useful - and it
does insert/overwrite modes.
|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

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From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
Subject: Re: Getting re-started
Date: 1998/10/07
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