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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 1 Oct 1996.
Re: adding text to art

Re: adding text to art

cap...@erols.com (Curtis A. Phillips):
> I am new to the whole internet and found that i liked reading mail from
> someone who has an ascii sig.  i have tried copying certain files and
> then appending them to my own sig, however, after i put my personal data
> in they tend to get all jumbled up.
> This is how it turns out.
> -- 
> 
>  ___________________          _-_
>  \==============_=_/ ____.---'---`---.____
>              \_ \    \----._________.----/
>                \ \   /  /    `-_-'                                       
>         Curtis A. Phillips
>            __,--`.`-'..'-_                                               
>      cap...@erols.com
>           /____          ||
>                `--.____,-'
> Can anyone tell me how I can add text to an existing ascii art file without
> messing it up?

Newbie error:
[X]  You did not mention the programs you use.

Almost every editor nowadays has basic commands to
insert, dlete, and replace characters in a file.
Use them!

Then replacing characters in a file with your name and address is easy.
and just a matter of a few changes within a few seconds:

> -- 
>     ___________________          _-_
>     \==============_=_/ ____.---'---`---.____
>  Curtis A.      \_ \    \----._________.----/
>  Phillips         \ \   /  /    `-_-'
>  "I need to    __,--`.`-'..'-_
>   RTFM ASAP!" /____          ||
>  cap...@erols.com `--.____,-'

HTH.

Sven

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From: guc...@banach.math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Re: adding text to art
Date: 1996/10/01
Message-ID: <slr...@banach.math.fu-berlin.de>#1/1
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references: <325...@erols.com>
organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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