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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 8 Mar 1996.
Re: ASCII signature you've never seen before.

Re: ASCII signature you've never seen before.

Quoting Eli The Bearded to All:
> Oogly Man <use...@tabbs.com> wrote:
> >Well, if everybody would just load an ANSi driver then you could have 
> the same 
> >characters  (just can't post cntrl codes)
> 
> Well if everybody would just use the same computer and the
> same operating system and be just like me I would never have
> to find someone different.
> 
> There exist hundreds or thousands of different terminal
> types that are reading netnews. While a lot of those are
> capible using an ANSI mode, it is far from all of them.
> I personally use a monochrome monitor most of the time. When
> I do use a color monitor I am often annoyed by ugly color
> usages. 
> 
> For an example of acceptible use of ansi escapes, you can
> try my compiling and running my signature. You will note I
> did not go overboard with exotic escape codes.
> 
> Elijah
> -- /* if(TERM==ANSI) {cc -Dc=`"\e[32m"` sig.c} else {cc -Dc=\"\" sig.c}
> */
> e(int d){printf("%c",d);}main(){int 
> a=0,b;for(b=141596885;b>8;b>>=4)e(97-(
> 
> b>>22)+(b&15));puts(c);for(;a<128;){b="}////+c)cy////*494y////*979y///+e*"
> 
> "959*ey///*I5Q*939*I5Qy///*96bI3Qb69y///*!777!y///*Y6kIql6Yy///*A5q+9!,A5"
> "9y///+m,YQ-my////-iq~y"[a++];for(;7&b;e("Eli!: 
> MV?JL1m\"P\n"[b-->>3]));}}
> 
> *!* I-News .930x8
>  * Origin: the-rapist is a poor choice of a name for the profession 
> (29:101/1.150)
> 
-=�EnD oF qUoTe�=-
Umm compiling it with what?
    ._________________.
    | _______________ |     dHHHb    dHHHHHb    PMMMb   dMM       ?MMMb  dMb
    | I  /+ Bunch   I |    dHHHHHb  dHHHP?HHb  PMMMMMb ?MM         ?MMMbdMMM
    | I     Of      I |   dHHP ?HHb HHHP  ?HH PMM'      ?MM         ?MMMMMP
    | I    BBS!     I |   ?HHb  dHH HHHb  dHH ?MM  MMM.  MMM  dMb    dMMP
    | I(801)524-0275I |    ?HHbdHHP ?HHHbdHHP  ?MM `MMM  ?MMbdMMM?  dMMP
    | I_____________I |     `HHHH'   ?HHHHHP    ?MMMMM'   ?MMMMM?  dMMP
    !_________________!       ,MMMMb  dMMb.    dMMMb   ,MMMM.    dMMM.
       ._[_______]_.          PMMMMMbdMMMMMb  dMM MMb  ?MMMMMb  dMMMP
   .___|___________|___.      PMMMMMMMNMMMMb  MMMMMMMb  ?MMMMMb,MMMP
   |::: ____           |       ?MMb  M   MMMM'`MMM  MMb  ?MMM`MMMMP
   |    ~~~~ [CD-ROM]  |        ?M'      `MMM' `M'  `M'   ?M' `MMP
   !___________________!           dre...@iod.sllhs.com

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From: use...@tabbs.com (Oogly Man)
Subject: Re: ASCII signature you've never seen before.
Date: 1996/03/08
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sender: ta...@xmission.xmission.com
organization: I-News .930x8/Some Place, Some Time
newsgroups: alt.ascii-art

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