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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Oct 2002.
Re: ascii art underground

Re: ascii art underground

From lament <ord...@yahoo.com> · alt.ascii-art · 25 Oct 2002 20:03 · View full thread
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:22:53 -0700, Bateau wrote:

> ____     On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:48:46 GMT \__/___  Faux_Pseudo ran
> through the
>  LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art
>      |   waving an axe and screaming:
>     / \

>>3 = built in ansi driver == WTF?  I have to have a special "driver"
>>    for ansi.  I may be a bit over the top here but a driver manages the
>>    the interaction between software and hardware.   Why would a driver
>>    be needed?

> Because before the days of Jave ascii/ANSI editors were all DOS based.
> Any the most popular ANSI editors (ACiDDraw, The Draw etc) still are.
> And to view ANSI in DOS you need to have ansi.sys loaded in your
> config.sys.
> If you didn't know this and you didn't know who ACiD were and what they
> did then you really have no say in how ascii groups should conduct
> themselves and what are and are not "major issues for the scene."
> Newbie.

....

(I'm speechless)



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