Re: ascii ansi?
From Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com>
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· 23 Nov 2000 02:48 · View full thread
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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...) -- | _ \ _ ^~ email:bateau at jupiterio.net | <')_,/ , ; \ >(')__, . ` ' , ,______________._ | (_~=/ \._`.'. \ (_~_/ _, '------:_______ ;==( *BANG* | ='- \=~_) ; \ ~^~~^~ ` (_~_/ | | `-\ \ *BANG* | ICQ:11367619 -'= \ ~^~~^~ `~' \_;
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