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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 11 Feb 1999.
Re: Evolution -- how to improve it?

Re: Evolution -- how to improve it?

>>>>> "CJRandall" == CJRandall  <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> writes:

    CJRandall> as you can see from the table the char is code 166
    CJRandall> decimal ...  NB: any char above 127 is likely to look
    CJRandall> different on your recipient's machine ... 

You were right, I hadn't even noticed that I was using a non-ASCII
char!  On my current system, char 166 looked better because of the
break in the vertical line and your additional comments let me try
something else: Why not use ! instead of char 166?  I think it does a
good job, it actually emphasizes that the monitor has become
all-important!

>it looks  _                          _
>like --> | |     but in the         | |  (my default true-type font
>         |_|     input window       | |   for Ie4/Ns4 is topaz-new2)
>          _      of my Ie4 it       |_|
>         | |     looks like -->      _
>         |_|                        |_|

Alex.
-- 
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6120/       %o  /             _
                         %o         _%o_/       <b--+    \  %O    ! \
           %o     .oodMMp'         / M           M /      \dB--+__!_/__
   ..oooOOO/       /\   /\         \ >>         /`L        `L\_   __|__

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From: Alex Schroeder <as...@bsiag.com>
Subject: Re: Evolution -- how to improve it?
Date: 1999/02/11
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