Answer: Where to find the GIF to ASCII translator

A. Robertson (ajr...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu) wrote:

: Where would I find the GIF to ASCII translator?  Thnak you!
try the following, a program called "Gifscii" for Mac, PC and Unix but 
unfortunately, when I use the Mac one, after they ask how many lines 
would I like to be in the horizontal direction and in the vertical 
direction, the application will quit automatically and left with an error 
message says can't open 'GIF file'. I'm sure that file is in gif 
format.....hope I could get some feedback from someone, please... 

ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii

anyway, if you can get it going please e-mail me... thank you :)

3MC> try the following, a program called "Gifscii" for Mac, PC and Unix but 3
3MC> unfortunately, when I use the Mac one, after they ask how many lines   3
3MC> would I like to be in the horizontal direction and in the vertical     3
3MC> direction, the application will quit automatically and left with an err3
3MC> message says can't open 'GIF file'. I'm sure that file is in gif       3
3MC> format.....hope I could get some feedback from someone, please...      3
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3MC> ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii                                3
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3MC> anyway, if you can get it going please e-mail me... thank you :)       3
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If it's unix, is there any way you could either mail me the source [so I can
port it to OpenVMS/VAX] or uuencode the IBM version for me? I can't FTP...

Thanks.

Keith Pepin
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KEITH PEPIN (kei...@enest.com) wrote:

: 3MC> try the following, a program called "Gifscii" for Mac, PC and Unix but 3
: 3MC> unfortunately, when I use the Mac one, after they ask how many lines   3
: 3MC> would I like to be in the horizontal direction and in the vertical     3
: 3MC> direction, the application will quit automatically and left with an err3
: 3MC> message says can't open 'GIF file'. I'm sure that file is in gif       3
: 3MC> format.....hope I could get some feedback from someone, please...      3
: 3MC>                                                                        3
: 3MC> ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii                                3
: 3MC>                                                                        3
: 3MC> anyway, if you can get it going please e-mail me... thank you :)       3
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: If it's unix, is there any way you could either mail me the source [so I can
: port it to OpenVMS/VAX] or uuencode the IBM version for me? I can't FTP...

: Thanks.

: Keith Pepin

 
Hi all,

Found DOSGifscii.exe and DOSGifscii21.exe at ftp host above but could any-
one post the correct filename for either one. I'd be most appreciative...
(Should be no more than 8 Alphanumerics and "." followed by 3 more 
alpha/#'s.)

Peace -
 
Jon Kavanagh 

3DK> : If it's unix, is there any way you could either mail me the source [s3
3DK> : port it to OpenVMS/VAX] or uuencode the IBM version for me? I can't F3
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3DK> Found DOSGifscii.exe and DOSGifscii21.exe at ftp host above but could a3
3DK> one post the correct filename for either one. I'd be most appreciative.3
3DK> (Should be no more than 8 Alphanumerics and "." followed by 3 more     3
3DK> alpha/#'s.)                                                            3
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3DK> Peace -                                                                3
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3DK> Jon Kavanagh                                                           3
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Well, I managed to FTP to that site. Apparently, since DOS filenames are 8.3,
VMS filenames are something like 64.32, and Unix names don't really have a
format, just a 20-40 char limit [forgot the #], DOSGifscii.EXE transfers to an
MSDOS machine as 'DOSGIFSC.EXE'. I downloaded both the DOS and VAX versions. I
would assume that the VAX version is for VMS, from the .EXE extension, but I
just hope it was compiled under 5.x, or it won't run... [It's VERY, VERY
stupid to distribute VAX/VMS .EXE files, they ARE version dependant. I can
only run V5.0-5.5 linked images. If that was compiled under, say, 4.6, it
wouldn't matter, but if it was LINKed under anything BUT 5.x, I can't run
it... I hope a 5.x machine linked it...]

I feel compelled to mention that the DOS vers. locked up 6 machines, with both
GIF-87a and GIF-89a files.

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