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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art.animation, 30 Mar 1994.
Re: GIF to ASCII converter

Re: GIF to ASCII converter

On Wed, 30 Mar 1994 03:32:03 GMT, suj...@netcom.com (Suresh Krishnajois) said:

S> Sometime ago on the Net I remember seeing references to a
S> "GIF to ASCII converter" program. Presumably this takes
S> in any GIF format picture, and converts it into another
S> picture composed entirely out of standard ASCII characters,
S> such that the output picture is the closest possible 
S> approximation to the original GIF picture.  

S> Does such a program exist ? If so, where can I get it ?

	A   program   to   do   this  called   ascgif  was   posted   to
comp.sources.misc some time  ago.  It's quite good, but the output looks
better when  printed  and help a  distance  away, rather  that close  up
(unless you've got a _huge_ screen!).

	Any comp.sources.misc archive will have it (in volume 30). Have
a look in:
	gatekeeper.dec.com 	/.2/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume30
	unix.hensa.ac.uk 	/pub/uunet/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume30
	usc.edu			/archive/usenet/sources/comp.sources.misc
	src.doc.ic.ac.uk	/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume30
	
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BCNU
Jon

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J.D.Morris Smith,		     The Medical Imaging Project
School of Computer Science,	
University of Birmingham,	Email:	j.d...@cs.bham.ac.uk
Birmingham,			Tel: 	+44-(0)21 414 3734
B15 2TT, England.		Fax: 	+44-(0)21 414 4281

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From: J.D...@cs.bham.ac.uk (Jon Morris-Smith)
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Subject: Re: GIF to ASCII converter
Date: 30 Mar 94 10:01:16
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