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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 15 Feb 1996.
Re: Is there a application for ascii art?

Re: Is there a application for ascii art?

>From: eq9...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (X. Zhang)
>
>hello all
>as i read all these wonderful ascii pictures. i wonder if they are done by
>an application.

Mine were all done by hand.


>After all doing it by hand will be labor intensive and painfully boring.

Labor intensive?  Yes, somewhat.  But that why I thought of a grid
system to get a relation between the screen and a printed picture.
Perhaps I should repost the message that explains my technique.

Painfully boring!?  Never!!  I never draw when I'm bored and I'm
never bored when I draw.


>If there is  an application for some kind that will make making ascii a lot
>easier, can you tell me what it is?

The only application I have ever used to ASCII draw is WordPerfect 5.2
for DOS.

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From: nve...@emr1.emr.ca (Normand Veilleux)
Subject: Re: Is there a application for ascii art?
Date: 1996/02/15
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