GIF to ASCII Conversion Utilities
From Colin Douthwaite <Col...@equinox.gen.nz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 17 Nov 1994 20:28 · View full thread
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Since my postings of the converted picture of Einstein's Tongue I have had a
stream of private requests for the conversion utility I used.
It was Sushil who did the conversion from GIF to ASCII not me !
However to head off all this private mail here is an extract from the
Ascii-Art FAQ:
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GIF to ASCII converters (from the FAQ)
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You can get Gifscii for many systems, and the source code from:
Chris' FTP site
-> Host: ftp.ncsu.edu
Path: pub/ncsu/chking/Archive
Scarecrow's FTP Site
-> Host: ftp.wwa.com
Address: 198.49.174.1
Path: pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii
Both Chris' and Scarcecrow's sites have the following:
Version: File name
MSDOS: Gifscii.exe
Unix (Sun): Gifscii.ux
Macintosh: MacGifscii.hqx
Amiga: Gifscii.lha
Digital Alpha: ALPHAGifscii.exe
Digital VAX: VAXGifscii.exe
c-source: Gifsciiv2.2src
You can get Gifscii for the Mac, and the source code from:
Jorn's FTP site
-> Host: ftp.mcs.com
Path: mcsnet.users/jorn/ascii-art
You can FTP ASCGIF from:
-> Host: usc.edu
Path: archive/usenet/sources/comp.sources.misc/volume30/ascgif
-> Host: wuarchive.wustl.edu
Path: usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume30/ascgif
-> Host: ftp.uu.net
Path: usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume30/ascgif
You can get GIF2ANSI from:
-> BBS: Exec-PC (414) 789-4210
GIF2ANSI.ZIP is in the "Mahoney MS-DOS" file collection.
You can get gif2txt from:
-> BBS: Aquila BBS (708) 820-8344]
gif2txt.zip
If you do NOT have FTP available, you can get Gifscii by email.
To receive _ send email to bob...@wwa.com with the subject line _
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Y Y
File Name Version Size Subject line
o Gifscii for the Mac 2.2 - 37 K REQUEST GIFSCII MAC
o Gifscii source code 2.2 - 51 K REQUEST GIFSCII SOURCE
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