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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Dec 1998.
Re: Alternative uses of ascii art

Re: Alternative uses of ascii art

LaurA schrieb in Nachricht <74po9m$rid$2...@news.flashnet.it>...
>Hi I'm Laura, writing from Italy, and I have a peculiar question for you.
>My main hobby is cross-stitch and my main dream is to find a way to convert
>ascii art into counted cross-stitch charts. I managed once, with a Mickey
>Mouse I found on the web, but it was a terribly hard job, I basically had to
>count the ascii crosses and put them into Excel. it took more time to do the
>chart than to stitch it!!


I don't know what cross-stitch is, but I how you can import a textfile in a charts program
like Excel.
With a tool you can convert a text file in a csv file. Every character is put in a single
cell and you can open the file as cvs textfile with many programs.
Download: (ZIP,26Kb,DOS)
http://studenten.freepage.de/meph/prog/csv.zip



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Subject: Re: Alternative uses of ascii art
Date: 1998/12/12
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