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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 13 Jan 2000.

                            
    
    
Re: So, You Want To Make Text Art?
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: So, You Want To Make Text Art?

                    

                        From Gerfried Fuchs <alf...@innocent.com>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 13 Jan 2000 00:00                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Veronica Karlsson <aci...@earthling.net> wrote:
> Try Deja...

 You might have guessed - I did. But deja did show me just the replies,
I haven't found the tutorial itself. In the meantime JRO was so kind to
send it to me.

> Again, try Deja. The discussion started with a tutorial. I don't think
> anybody referred to it as a FAQ.

 Then maybe I just misread some bits of the thread. Sorry for that.

> I criticised this tutorial. It contains the "advice" that people should
> use their keyboards to determine wether something is "pure" ascii or
> not.
> 
> JRO responded with criticism of the FAQ. He said it was boring, even
> insulting, to newbies.

 I won't comment on this, another time. It was discussed over and over
again and shouldn't be continued again. It wouldn't make any change,
either.

> For the third time: Deja is your friend in situations like this.

 It wasn't, in this situation.

 So long!
Alfie
-- 
  Arnold's Laws of Documentation:
(1) If it should exist, it doesn't.
(2) If it does exist, it's out of date.
(3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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