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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 23 Nov 2000.
Re: ascii ansi?

Re: ascii ansi?

On 22 Nov 2000 17:50:22 GMT ewd...@ece.concordia.ca wrote:
>Arne Heldal <jhe...@c2i.net> wrote:
>
>: all this ascii art i see nowadays, isn't it really ANSI art? i mean,
>: this windows stuff only gives
>: you 127 characters to use. at least you can't use the good old 176, 177,
>: 178 and 219 which
>: i think REALLY was the ascii art. looked more like graphics, eh? just
>: take a look at the txt.
>
>
>Exactly how do you figure?
>
>Back in the days, anyone with anything that patheic would not claim it to
>be ANSI art.
>
>ANSI art is colourful, has animation, can remap your keyboard ;P
>You needed ANSI.SYS (or something) to make it work.
>So, no, it is most emphatically *not* ANSI art. And in no way will ASCII
>art be considered ANSI art, since ANSI art relies on escape sequences,
>etc. Maybe you should pick up a copy of ANSIdraw, TheDraw, or something
>and check out ANSI art.

I use AcidDraw.

>What you've got is ExtendedASCII art, as opposed to PLAIN ASCII art.
>Plain ASCII is 0-127 characters.
>
>Why ExtendedASCII? Well, 128-255 are undefined in the ASCII standard. What
>you use is IBM's extended ASCII for DOS.
>
>Windows has *super* screwy definition of ANSI... 
>You can't even display ANSI in Windows. Go ahead, I dare you to try. I've
>never gotten it to not choke on ANSI art.

It works fine in my windows BBS client.

>Too bad there isn't an ANSI art newsgroup... I suppose the binaries sister
>newsgroup to this would be the place for it? (Along with extended IBM
>ASCII art...)

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Subject: Re: ascii ansi?
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