Re: [pic] Font

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:05:46 GMT, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
wrote:

>.----- On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 06:10:35 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted:

>.------------------------------
>|I have diddled the command line of LR.BAT so that it produces an out file
>|with the reversal in it:
>|
>|C> LR myfile   will produce the output file myfile.out!  :-)
>'------------------------------
>That`s an interesting term for editing a batch file... I thought you could
>only 'diddle' ascii art. :o)
>
>/' /"\ |\/| |\/|  /\  |\ | |\    |  | |\ | ["
>\. \_/ |  | |  | /""\ | \| |/    |_ | | \| |_
>
> _   _                       _                _
>/ ' / \ |\/| |\/|  /\  |\ | | \    |  | |\ | |_
>\_. \_/ |  | |  | /""\ | \| |_/    |_ | | \| |_
>
><g>

Nope, an inveterate Diddler ( look no further ) can diddle anything;
everything; anybody and everybody almost anywhere and everywhere.

Here is my diddle of LR.BAT:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
@echo off
: lr.bat - reverse ASCII pictures left for right
:
: original unix version Copyright (C) 1994 by Jef Poskanzer.
: converted dos version by CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk>,
: Aug 1998
:
:# Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
:# documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
:# that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
:# copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
:# documentation.  This software is provided "as is" without express or
:# implied warranty.
:
: requires asc-tool.exe
:          tr.exe
:          sed.exe       are present in your search path.
:
: Mapping is:   ()<>{}[]/\\.,`'LJZSE3dbqp
: to:           )(><}{][\\/,.'`JLSZ3Ebdpq
:
asc-tool -mh %1 | tr "()<>{}[]/\\.,`'LJZSE3dbqp" ")(><}{][\\/,.'`JLSZ3Ebdpq"
| sed "s/ *$//" >> %1.out
                ^^^^^^^^^     
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I diddled it by simply adding the bit at the end:  >> %1.out

It also just works with CW90.BAT and CCW90.BAT but due to the DOS
limitation on the length of the command line the output file emerges
with a name anything from "A to AOUT" I haven't figured out why the
name varies. :-(

The diddle does NOT work with TB.BAT and only prints the output to the
screen.

>.------------------------------
>|BTW it was Stile who created RESIZE.EXE wasn't it?  Your proggie was
>|ASC2PIC.EXE and Colin Randall has come up with ASC-TOOL.EXE...we've
>|got some talented people around these days.
>'------------------------------

>Yes, STiLE made RESIZE.EXE, I made ASC2PIC.EXE and ASCHALF.EXE (resampler)
>and Colin Randall did ASC-TOOL.EXE.

I have not yet got a copy of ASCHALF.EXE but is it any different in
result to the RESIZE.EXE 50% option?

>Who made TRIM.COM? :o)

It is quite an old public domain program which was written for general
use...not specifically for Ascii Art. I use TRIM.COM more than any other
utility on my files, other people's pictures and my archives. It is
amazing how many ways you can introduce trailing spaces into the files
you create and TRIM.COM cleans them up in a split second. Great proggie!

>Talented people? gee thanks! <g>

Yes indeed. We have not had ASCII-tool program writers before just people
giving location references to Ascii Tools. Without programmers all our
computer hardware would be totally useless.

Bye,

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