Re: Displaying ascii art at during Windows bootup
From Wesley Clifford <par...@apk.net>
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· 17 Apr 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:37:27 +0100, "David Palmer" <dav...@666palmer.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > (This is aimed users with some experience of ms-dos). > >You can seriously mess up your computer if you don't know what you're doing. >Anything you do is at your own risk. > >If you're using Windows 95/98 you probably have noticed that when your computer >boots there's a text mode screen before the Windows splash screen displays. It >is possible to display ascii art at this stage without much effort. > >Simply select Start, Run, type sysedit, click OK. Just paste your pictures at >the end of autoexec.bat and prefix each line with ECHO like my example below >between the dotted lines (not the dotted lines). Blank lines need the dot after >"ECHO" Another possibility that allows almost all 256 characters, including those that you can't use in the echo command (Like the | > < etc characters, and all those extended ones like the single and double borders) you can also make a text file with the art in it. Use the EDIT command to make the file, name it something like BOOTUP.TXT and instead of all the echo commands in your autoexec.bat file, just put the command TYPE BOOTUP.TXT --Wesley The only stupid question is the unasked question. And that's a good thing, because I hate stupid questions!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,6561f86b3026332c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: par...@apk.net (Wesley Clifford) Subject: Re: Displaying ascii art at during Windows bootup Date: 2000/04/17 Message-ID: <38f...@news.apk.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 612211388 References: <8dak22$7ng$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: abu...@apk.net X-Trace: plonk.apk.net 955975800 29535 207.54.160.167 (17 Apr 2000 12:50:00 GMT) Organization: APK Net NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Apr 2000 12:50:00 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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