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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 11 Nov 1997.
Re: Mac Software?

Re: Mac Software?

Kwan Yeoh (red...@Death-Star.comSpAmMeNoT) ejaculated thusly:
> Is there any software for Mac (68k) to help with ascii drawing? I'm having
> trouble finding anything with an overwrite feature or a figlet program,
> even.

I generally use Alpha and Profont for mine, when my Mac's being a Mac. 
When it's being a Linux box I use Emacs and the misc*fixed* font. If you
know Tcl or Emacs Lisp you could probably configure one of these to
overwrite for all .asc files, say. 

  Linux/m68k: http://www.clark.net/pub/lawrencc/linux/
  Linux-PMac: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~tesch/linux_info/
  Alpha: http://www.ict.uni-karlsruhe.de/Rutz/Apple/alpha.html
  Emacs: Tends to come with Linux.
-- 
Andrew Chadwick -- a.t...@dur.ac.uk -- http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d44abw/
dear All in high horse And I'll win or she lie heid He'll put on the chin. Go 
to Maggie's full of every verse) Bring throught rounds in Clyde Waters Willie 
O spare me in his cane frae him It's I'll put tear A' fore legs Tae combing 

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From: A T Chadwick <A.T...@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Mac Software?
Date: 1997/11/11
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