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ASCTOOL.EXE test

ASCTOOL.EXE test

alt.ascii-art · 11 messages · 21 Aug 1998 - 25 Aug 1998
Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 21 Aug 1998 00:00 · permalink
I have been doing another test on Colin Randall's ASCTOOL.EXE
picture rotation utility using a simple "square/rectangle".

It works quite well except for the CW90 ( 270 degrees) and CCW90 (
360 degrees ) rotations where the relative horizontal/vertical
spacings elongate the image and also the character mapping seems
wrong for CW90 and CCW90 because the | and _ characters are not
retained in these conversions but are replaced by letters.

I think Joshua Bell's original code did not change the characters
although there was some aspect ratio distortion with CW90 and CCW90.


Original:
     ________________
    |                |
    |                |
    |                |
    |                |
    |                |
    |                |
    |                |
    |________________|


LR.BAT:
 ________________
|                |
|                |
|                |
|                |
|                |
|                |
|                |
|________________|



TB.BAT:

    |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
    |                |
    |                |
    |                |
    |                |
    |                |
    |                |
    |                |
     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


CW90.BAT:


 nnnnnnnn
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 nnnnnnnn




CCW90.BAT

 aaaaaaaa
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 l       l
 aaaaaaaa


Bye,

Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 21 Aug 1998 00:00 · permalink
Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> wrote:

>I have been doing another test on Colin Randall's ASCTOOL.EXE
>picture rotation utility using a simple "square/rectangle".

>It works quite well except for the CW90 ( 270 degrees) and CCW90 (
>360 degrees ) rotations where the relative horizontal/vertical
>spacings elongate the image and also the character mapping seems
>wrong for CW90 and CCW90 because the | and _ characters are not
>retained in these conversions but are replaced by letters.

>I think Joshua Bell's original code did not change the characters
>although there was some aspect ratio distortion with CW90 and CCW90.


>Original:
>     ________________
>    |                |
>    |                |
>    |                |
>    |                |
>    |                |
>    |                |
>    |                |
>    |________________|


>LR.BAT:
> ________________
>|                |
>|                |
>|                |
>|                |
>|                |
>|                |
>|                |
>|________________|



>TB.BAT:

>    |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
>    |                |
>    |                |
>    |                |
>    |                |
>    |                |
>    |                |
>    |                |
>     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


>CW90.BAT:


> nnnnnnnn
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> nnnnnnnn




>CCW90.BAT

> aaaaaaaa
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> l       l
> aaaaaaaa


As a follow up to my first post I checked Joshua Bell's original
illustrations of the results of his program and I see that his CW90
and CCW90 images are distorted as he says they will be but he seems
to have retained the same characters for his mapping:


-------    Comment by Joshua Bell, 31 July 1994  ---------------

Note: None of these utilities rescale images or attempt to do
anything beyond the scope of a single character cell. So rotated
images are almost always going to be extremely distorted.

Examples: ($ is my prompt)

$ cat genie
                _.---.__
              .'        `-.
             /      .--.   |
             \/  / /    |_/
              `\/|/    _(_)
           ___  /|_.--'    `.   .
           \  `--' .---.     \ /|
            )   `       \     //|
            | __    __   |   '/||
            |/  \  /  \      / ||
            ||  |  |   \     \  |
            \|  |  |   /        |
           __\\@/  |@ | ___ \--'
          (     /' `--'  __)|
         __>   (  .  .--' &"\
        /   `--|_/--'     &  |
        |                 #. |
        |                 q# |
         \              ,ad#'
          `.________.ad####'
            `#####""""""''
             `&#"
              &# "&
              "#ba"


$ lr genie
                                                        __.---._
                                                     .-'        `.
                                                    |   .--.      \
                                                     \_|    \ \  \/
                                                     (_)_    \|\/'
                                               .   .'    `--._|\  ___
                                               |\ /     .---. `--'  /
                                               |\\     /       '   (
                                               ||\`   |   __    __ |
                                               || \      /  \  /  \|
                                               |  /     /   |  |  ||
                                               |        \   |  |  |/
                                                `--/ ___ | @|  \@//__
                                                   |(__  `--' `\     )
                                                   /"& `--.  .  )   <__
                                                  |  &     `--\_|--'   \
                                                  | .#                 |
                                                  | #p                 |
                                                   `#ba.              /
                                                    `####ba.________.'
                                                      ``""""""#####'
                                                               "#&'
                                                             &" #&
                                                             "ad#"
$ tb genie
              .#Pa.
              &# .&
             ,&#.
            ,#####........
          ,'~~~~~~~~'ad####.
         /              `ad#.
        |                 d# |
        |                 #' |
        \   ,--|~\--.     &  |
         ~~>   (  '  '--. &./
          (     \. ,--.  ~~)|
           ~~//@\  |@ | ~~~ /--.
            /|  |  |   \        |
            ||  |  |   /     /  |
            |\  /  \  /      \ ||
            | ~~    ~~   |   .\||
            )   ,       /     \\|
           /  ,--. '---'     / \|
           ~~~  \|~'--.    ,'   '
              ,/\|\    ~(~)
             /\  \ \    |~\
             \      '--'   |
              '.        ,-'
                ~'---'~~


$ tb genie | lr
                                                             .aP#.
                                                             &. #&
                                                               .#&.
                                                      ........#####.
                                                    .####ba`~~~~~~~~`.
                                                   .#ba'              \
                                                  | #b                 |
                                                  | `#                 |
                                                  |  &     .--/~|--.   /
                                                   \.& .--`  `  )   <~~
                                                   |(~~  .--. ./     )
                                                .--\ ~~~ | @|  /@\\~~
                                               |        /   |  |  |\
                                               |  \     \   |  |  ||
                                               || /      \  /  \  /|
                                               ||/.   |   ~~    ~~ |
                                               |//     \       .   (
                                               |/ \     `---` .--.  \
                                               `   `.    .--`~|/  ~~~
                                                     (~)~    /|/\.
                                                     /~|    / /  /\
                                                    |   `--`      /
                                                     `-.        .`
                                                        ~~`---`~

$ cw90 genie
      --\
     /   |
    /    |n
    .    v |     /|
   /|   /  |/---u |
  /#|   |  /--\   | /\
:&&#|   |  /   | / /\ .
####|   -n @   | | /  \
b :#|   | \\--/ /|\\   |
a: #|   \ \      \--\  .
:& :|   |.        |\   |
   :|   | /---\  .. \  |
   :.   \ |@   | ||  . |
   :a    .|    | ||  | .
   :d    |\-  /  |\  | |
   :#    |  \/   . | . |
   \#\   \ |    /  n- /
   \#a    ||   -   || |
    #dq#&&||       u\ .
    \##. :u       /  -
     \   /-/      .
      ---  | /\\ /
           |   \\
           \  --\\
            ------.



$ ccw90 genie
     .------
      \\--  \
       \\   |
      / \\/ |  ---
     .      /-/   \
  -  /       n: .##\
 . \n       ||&&#qd#
 | ||   -   ||    a#\
 / -u  /    | \   \#\
| . | .   /\  |    #:
| |  \|  /  -\|    d:
. |  || |    |.    a:
| .  || |   @| \   .:
|  \ ..  \---/ |   |:
|   \|        .|   |: &:
.  \--\      \ \   |# :a
|   \\|/ /--\\ |   |#: b
 \  / | |   @ u-   |####
 . \/ / |   /  |   |#&&:
  \/ |   \--/  |   |#/
     | n---/|  /   |/
     |/     | ^    .
             u|    /
              |   /
               \--

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Bye,

CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> ASCII art 22 Aug 1998 00:00 · permalink
In article <qAo...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk>, CJRandall
<col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> writes
[][ yep ... i've cross-posted this just to make sure it reaches
[][ the attention of :-
>In article <35d...@news.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite
><cfb...@southern.co.nz> writes
>>
>>I have been doing another test on Colin Randall's ASCTOOL.EXE
>>picture rotation utility using a simple "square/rectangle".
>>
>[][ for on-lookers ...
>                                  _.-.
>                               _.=\`1T
>                            _.=\ \ \1T
>                  |^\_   _.=\ \ \ \ 1T
>                  |\\\\ .[ \ \ \ \ \1T
>                   \\  |||\ \ \ \ \ 1T
>                _   )) /|| \ \ \ \ \LJ
>              .=1\_//.|.||\ \ \ \ \_/
>           .='/1|:  ::|T'\ \ \ \ \_/
>        .='/ / ||:  ::||\ \ \ \ \_/
>     ,='/ / / /`1:  :'Y| \ \ \ \_/      __
>     1'/ / / / /|'\\\ Y|\ \ \ \_/    .=[__]
>     1/ / / / / Y, ;;_;| \_\_=~   .='.=T  T
>     1 / / / / /::_YY;Y]\\\    .='.='  |  |
>     1/ / / / / /Y;[] []\\\\.='.='     |  |
>     1 / / / / / /Y[]_[]][='.='        |  |
>     1/ / / / / / _[(((--;='           |  |
>      '=_/ / /=' (((``;='              |  |
>        `-/='   .```='                 |__|
>             .='.='                  .-~_.'
>          .='.='                  .='.-'
>       .='.='                  .='.='
>    ,='.='                  .='.='
>    [='                  .='.='
>    T                 .='.='
>    |              .='.='
>    |           .='.='
>    |        .='.='
>    |     .='.='
>    |  ,='.='
>    |-'.='
>    `~~
[][ gryphon-hawk type gargoyle thingy
[][ kind of dragn like

[][ i think it looks quite good when viewed with white characters upon
[][ a black background

>[][ the rest of this post is text-type: plain/technical
>[][           with dos batch-file code: uuencoded/zipped
>
>>It works quite well except for the CW90 ( 270 degrees) and CCW90 (
>>360 degrees ) rotations where the relative horizontal/vertical
>>spacings elongate the image and also the character mapping seems
>>wrong for CW90 and CCW90 because the | and _ characters are not
>>retained in these conversions but are replaced by letters.
>>
>[ snip ]
>>
>>CW90.BAT:
>>
>> nnnnnnnn
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> nnnnnnnn
>>
>>CCW90.BAT
>>
>> aaaaaaaa
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> aaaaaaaa
>>
>>
>>Bye,
>[][ yep. you're right ...
>
>[][ ... did similar tests today ... also checked both the mapping in the
>[][ original unix scripts and the unix man-page for 'tr'.
>
>[][ i have (oops!) missed out a character in one of the mapping strings
>[][ (some need to be escaped) ... resulting in the failure shown above.
>
>[][ here are corrected batch-files with enhancements to allow the
>[][ inclusion of both | and "  by using escaped-octal-code-sequences.
>
>type sq.asc
>.----"--------,
>|             |
>|             |
>|  SQUARE.ASC |
>|             |
>|             |
>|             |
>`-------------'
>ccw90 sq.asc
>\------\
>|      |
>|  U   |
>|  S   |
>|  A   |
>|  .   |
>|  E   |
>|  R   |
>|  A   |
>:  )   |
>|  Q   |
>|  S   |
>|      |
>|      |
>.------/
>[][ hmmm .... still appears elongated .... but is mapped correctly.
>[][ ... mostly due to the difference between | and -
>
>[][ here are the batch-files ... LR.BAT  TB.BAT  CW90.BAT  CCW90.BAT
>[][ i've zipped and uuencoded them since posting them here in ascii
>[][ form will munge the line lengths.
>-----------8<--------cut-here---------8<--------------
>[ A UUEncoded file (asc-bats.zip) was included here. ]
>
>-----------8<--------cut-here---------8<--------------
>
>[][][ see yuz
>[][][ colin
[][ Colin, i posted it yesterday to news:alt.ascii-art.animation ...
[][ ... let me know how you get on with the updates.

[][ once you're happy with it ... i'll make the whole kit available
[][ from my website.

[][][ see yuz
[][][ colin
-- 
( () /_ / /\)   _/   /? .\ /\) /) .\ /_ /_
CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk

CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> ASCII art 23 Aug 1998 00:00 · permalink
In article <903...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite
<cfb...@southern.co.nz> writes
>Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> wrote:
>
>>I have been doing another test on Colin Randall's ASCTOOL.EXE
>>It works quite well except for the CW90 ( 270 degrees) and CCW90 (
>>360 degrees ) rotations where the relative horizontal/vertical
>>I think Joshua Bell's original code did not change the characters
>>although there was some aspect ratio distortion with CW90 and CCW90.
[ snip - mapping problem ]
>As a follow up to my first post I checked Joshua Bell's original
>illustrations of the results of his program and I see that his CW90
>and CCW90 images are distorted as he says they will be but he seems
>to have retained the same characters for his mapping:
>
>
>-------    Comment by Joshua Bell, 31 July 1994  ---------------
>
>Note: None of these utilities rescale images or attempt to do
>anything beyond the scope of a single character cell. So rotated
>images are almost always going to be extremely distorted.
>
>Examples: ($ is my prompt)
>
>$ cat genie
>                _.---.__
>              .'        `-.
>             /      .--.   |
>             \/  / /    |_/
>              `\/|/    _(_)
>           ___  /|_.--'    `.   .
>           \  `--' .---.     \ /|
>            )   `       \     //|
>            | __    __   |   '/||
>            |/  \  /  \      / ||
>            ||  |  |   \     \  |
>            \|  |  |   /        |
>           __\\@/  |@ | ___ \--'
>          (     /' `--'  __)|
>         __>   (  .  .--' &"\
>        /   `--|_/--'     &  |
>        |                 #. |
>        |                 q# |
>         \              ,ad#'
>          `.________.ad####'
>            `#####""""""''
>             `&#"
>              &# "&
>              "#ba"
>
[ snip ]
>$ cw90 genie
>      --\
>     /   |
>    /    |n
>    .    v |     /|
>   /|   /  |/---u |
>  /#|   |  /--\   | /\
>:&&#|   |  /   | / /\ .
>####|   -n @   | | /  \
>b :#|   | \\--/ /|\\   |
>a: #|   \ \      \--\  .
>:& :|   |.        |\   |
>   :|   | /---\  .. \  |
>   :.   \ |@   | ||  . |
>   :a    .|    | ||  | .
>   :d    |\-  /  |\  | |
>   :#    |  \/   . | . |
>   \#\   \ |    /  n- /
>   \#a    ||   -   || |
>    #dq#&&||       u\ .
>    \##. :u       /  -
>     \   /-/      .
>      ---  | /\\ /
>           |   \\
>           \  --\\
>            ------.
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
[][ the mapping of the latest set of batch files test results ...

cw90 djin.asc

      --\
     /   |
    /    |n
    .    v |     /|
   /|   /  |/---u |
  /#|   |  /--\   | /\
:&&#|   |  /   | / /\ .
####|   -n @   | | /  \
b :#|   | \\--/ /|\\   |
a: #|   \ \      \--\  .
:& :|   |.        |\   |
   :|   | /---\  .. \  |
   :.   \ |@   | ||  . |
   :a    .|    | ||  | .
   :d    |\-  /  |\  | |
   :#    |  \/   . | . |
   \#\   \ |    /  n- /
   \#a    ||   -   || |
    #dq#&&||       u\ .
    \##. :u       /  -
     \   /-/      .
      ---  | /\\ /
           |   \\
           \  --\\
            ------.

[[c:\usr\colin\asc-tool\test]]
[this is the output from ccw90 using Joshua's cw90 output from above

         -.---.--
       ./        \-.
      /      .--.   |
      \/  / /    |-/
       \\/|/    -(-)
    ---  /|-.--/    \.   .
    \  \--/ .---.     \ /|
     )   \       \     //|
     | --    --   |   //||
     |/  \  /  \      / ||
     ||  |  |   \     \  |
     \|  |  |   /        |
e   --\\@/  |@ | --- \--/
-  (     // \--/  --)|
( --<   (  .  .--/ &"\
e/   \--|-/--/     &  |
g|                 #. |
 |                 q# |
0 \              /ad#/
9  \.--------.ad####/
w    \#####""""""//
u     \&#"
       &# "&
$      "#ba"
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

[][ as you can see ... there is an improvement in the mapping over
[][ the first set of batch files that i supplied you, altho' there
[][ is a loss of symetry where the 'underscore' char has been
[][ translated to a 'minus' via a 'vertical-bar'.

[][ the mapping now is the same as Joshua's original (but in a
[][ different order to stop 'dos' and 'tr-386' complaining).

[][ so perhaps in Joshua's code the 'underscore' char should only
[][ get mapped to a 'bracket' and not to a 'vertical-bar'?

[][ ... mebbe if i get enuf time i'll play around with it.

[][ here's one i made earlier ... i've been diddling it already ...

                                 .-.-,
                              .-\ |T| /-,
                           .-\ \ \|T|/ / /-,
                |^\_   _.-\ \ \ \ |T| / / / /-,_   _/^|
                |\\\\  [ \ \ \ \ \|T|/ / / / / ]  ////|
                 \\  |||\ \ \ \ \ |T| / / / / /|||  //
                  )) /|| \ \ \ \ \CJR/ / / / / ||\ ((
            .-1\_//.|.||\ \ \ \ \// \\/ / / / /||,|,\\_/1-,
         .-'/1|:  ::|T'\ \ \ \ \//   \\/ / / / /`T|::  :|1\`-,
      .-'/ / ||:  ::||\ \ \ \ \//     \\/ / / / /||::  :|| \ \`-,
   ,-'/ / / /`|:  :'Y| \ \ \ \//       \\/ / / / |Y`:  :|'\ \ \ \`-,
   | / / / / /|'\\\ Y|\ \ \ \'/         \`/ / / /|Y ///`|\ \ \ \ \ |
   |/ / / / / Y  ;; ;| \ \.-''           ``-,/ / |; ;;  Y \ \ \ \ \|
   | / / / / /;:  H _T\.-'                   `-,/T  H  :;\ \ \ \ \ |
   |/ / / / / /Y__H(((__;                       `-, H  Y\ \ \ \ \ \|
   | / / / / / (((__;``                          | `H, J \ \ \ \ \ |
   |/ / / / / /```H  :                           :  H `-\ \ \ \ \ \|
   `-/ / / .-' |  Y  |                           |  Y  | `-, \ \ \-'
      `-/-'    .  :  |                           |  :  ,    `-\-'
      ,-\-.    '  :  |          17aug98          |  :  `    ,-/-.
   ,-\ \ \ '-. |  A  |                           |  A  | ,-` / / /-,
   |\ \ \ \ \ \-. H  :                           :  H ,-/ / / / / /|
   | \ \ \ \ \ T 'H. |                           | ,H` 7 / / / / / |
   |\ \ \ \ \ \A  H '-.                         ,-` H  A/ / / / / /|
   | \ \ \ \ \::  H  L/'-.                   ,-`\L  H  ::/ / / / / |
   |\ \ \ \ \ A  :: :| / /'-,.           .,-`\ \ |: ::  A / / / / /|
   | \ \ \ \ \|./// A|/ / / /.\         /,\ \ \ \|A \\\,|/ / / / / |
   '-.\ \ \ \,|:  :.A| / / / /\\       //\ \ \ \ |A,:  :|./ / / /,-`
      '-.\ \ ||:  ::||/ / / / /\\     //\ \ \ \ \||::  :|| / /,-`
         '-.\1|:  ::|L./ / / / /\\   //\ \ \ \ \,L|::  :|1/,-`
            '-1/~\\'|'||/ / / / /\\ //\ \ \ \ \||`|`//~\1-`
                  )) \|| / / / / /TL7\ \ \ \ \ ||/ ((
                 //  |||/ / / / / |L| \ \ \ \ \|||  \\
                |////  [ / / / / /|L|\ \ \ \ \ ]  \\\\|
                |v/~    '-/ / / / |L| \ \ \ \-`    ~\v|
                           '-/ / /|L|\ \ \-`
                              '-/ |L| \-`
                                 '-'-`

[][ ... abandoned ... re-diddled ... abandoned ...

[][ BTW ... sed-386.exe can be used for a bit more than just trimming
[][ blanks from the end of lines ... a common use i have is to remove
[][ a grid of dots from a pic, thus ...

type well.asc
+------------------------------+
|..............................|
|........o.o..........oo.......|
|......o.....o.....o......o....|
|.....o.......o...o........o...|
|......o.....o....o........o...|
|........o.o.......o......o....|
|.....................oo.......|
|..............................|
+------------------------------+

sed-386 's/\./ /g' well.asc

+------------------------------+
|                              |
|        o o          oo       |
|      o     o     o      o    |
|     o       o   o        o   |
|      o     o    o        o   |
|        o o       o      o    |
|                     oo       |
|                              |
+------------------------------+

[][ i can send you the unix man-page if you like ...

[][][ see yuz
[][][ colin
-- 
( () /_ / /\)   _/   /? .\ /\) /) .\ /_ /_
CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk

Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 23 Aug 1998 00:00 · permalink
CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>[][ here are the batch-files ... LR.BAT  TB.BAT  CW90.BAT  CCW90.BAT
>>[][ i've zipped and uuencoded them since posting them here in ascii
>>[][ form will munge the line lengths.
>>
>[][ Colin, i posted it yesterday to news:alt.ascii-art.animation ...
>[][ ... let me know how you get on with the updates.


These new batch files are a big improvement because all of them
will now deliver an output file after I added the string

                      >> %1.out

to each file to pipe the output from the file BOX to BOX.OUT which gave:




Original:
     ________________
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LR.BAT:

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TB.BAT:

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CW90.BAT:

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CCW90.BAT:

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  |       |
  |       |
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 7
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No more problems with that excessively long DOS command line. :-)

I doubt whether much more can be done with this program because the
CW90 and CCW90 rotations are never going to look right due to the
columns/rows aspect ratio of computer screens. Those two rotations
are of doubtful practical use anyway!

Great job with ASC-TOOL.EXE sir...I've been waiting about 4 years
for Joshua Bell's code to be MS-DOS-ified. A very useful little
program for reversals and mirror images. :-)


>[][ once you're happy with it ... i'll make the whole kit available
>[][ from my website.

Well I reckon you have got things all sorted out now although it was/is
not necessary to rename the files to TR-386.EXE etc etc because the 
original files TR.EXE and SED.EXE work perfectly well once that CWSDPMI.EXE
file is present.

Anyway, what you put in your final package is over to you. I just diddle
my copies of the batch files to suit my particular way of working them
including piping the output from MYFILE to MYFILE.OUT instead of writing
the output to the screen...not every user will want to do that however.

Thanks for all your time and effort once again. :-)

Regards,

Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> wrote:

>I just had an idea... ASCTOOL-GUI .... :o)

Oh, puhleeze!  !@#$%^&*  <groan>  :-(

Bye,

CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> ASCII art 24 Aug 1998 00:00 · permalink
In article <35e...@news.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite
<cfb...@southern.co.nz> writes
>On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:03:43 +0100, CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk>
>wrote:
>>>[][ for on-lookers ...
>>>                                  _.-.
>>>                               _.=\`1T
>>>                            _.=\ \ \1T
>>>                  |^\_   _.=\ \ \ \ 1T
>>>                  |\\\\ .[ \ \ \ \ \1T
>>>                   \\  |||\ \ \ \ \ 1T
>>>                _   )) /|| \ \ \ \ \LJ
>>>              .=1\_//.|.||\ \ \ \ \_/
>>>           .='/1|:  ::|T'\ \ \ \ \_/
>>>        .='/ / ||:  ::||\ \ \ \ \_/
>>>     ,='/ / / /`1:  :'Y| \ \ \ \_/      __
>>>     1'/ / / / /|'\\\ Y|\ \ \ \_/    .=[__]
>>>     1/ / / / / Y, ;;_;| \_\_=~   .='.=T  T
>>>     1 / / / / /::_YY;Y]\\\    .='.='  |  |
>>>     1/ / / / / /Y;[] []\\\\.='.='     |  |
>>>     1 / / / / / /Y[]_[]][='.='        |  |
>>>     1/ / / / / / _[(((--;='           |  |
>>>      '=_/ / /=' (((``;='              |  |
>>>        `-/='   .```='                 |__|
>>>             .='.='                  .-~_.'
>
>>[][ gryphon-hawk type gargoyle thingy
>>[][ kind of dragn like
>
>Reminds me of the German Eagle motif from World War 2.
>
>Bye,
[][ yeah ... i've thought that ... like Ancient-Roman, Legion ...
[][ ... old imperial style.

[][ its supposed to be a gargoyle but since they are 'olde rain pipes'
[][ this one looks more like a gatepost.

[][ see yuz
[][ colin
-- 
( () /_ / /\)   _/   /? .\ /\) /) .\ /_ /_
CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk

CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> ASCII art 24 Aug 1998 00:00 · permalink
In article <903...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite
<cfb...@southern.co.nz> writes
>
>Great job with ASC-TOOL.EXE sir...I've been waiting about 4 years
>for Joshua Bell's code to be MS-DOS-ified. A very useful little
>program for reversals and mirror images. :-)
>
[][ ok fanx ... good :)
>
>not necessary to rename the files to TR-386.EXE etc etc because the 
>original files TR.EXE and SED.EXE work perfectly well once that CWSDPMI.EXE
>file is present.
>
[][ this is so ... altho' i do 'cos lets me know it needs min. 386 cpu
>
>Thanks for all your time and effort once again. :-)
>
>Regards,
[][ your welcome

               __- """ -__
             .~~         ~~-.
            /~       ;;      \
           /.,   ~@~    ~@~   \
           /                  \
           /  '"*.,,*"'*,.,*'"\

[][][ see yuz
[][][ colin
-- 
( () /_ / /\)   _/   /? .\ /\) /) .\ /_ /_
CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk

.----- On 23 Aug 1998 18:36:32 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted:
|
|Well I reckon you have got things all sorted out now although it was/is
|not necessary to rename the files to TR-386.EXE etc etc because the 
|original files TR.EXE and SED.EXE work perfectly well once that CWSDPMI.EXE
|file is present.
|
|Anyway, what you put in your final package is over to you. I just diddle
|my copies of the batch files to suit my particular way of working them
|including piping the output from MYFILE to MYFILE.OUT instead of writing
|the output to the screen...not every user will want to do that however.
|
|Thanks for all your time and effort once again. :-)
|
'----------------------------

I just had an idea... ASCTOOL-GUI .... :o)



|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

.----- On 24 Aug 1998 18:47:16 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted:
|Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> wrote:
|>I just had an idea... ASCTOOL-GUI .... :o)
|
|Oh, puhleeze!  !@#$%^&*  <groan>  :-(
'--------------

Is that a no then? :o/

|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:03:43 +0100, CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
>>[][ for on-lookers ...
>>                                  _.-.
>>                               _.=\`1T
>>                            _.=\ \ \1T
>>                  |^\_   _.=\ \ \ \ 1T
>>                  |\\\\ .[ \ \ \ \ \1T
>>                   \\  |||\ \ \ \ \ 1T
>>                _   )) /|| \ \ \ \ \LJ
>>              .=1\_//.|.||\ \ \ \ \_/
>>           .='/1|:  ::|T'\ \ \ \ \_/
>>        .='/ / ||:  ::||\ \ \ \ \_/
>>     ,='/ / / /`1:  :'Y| \ \ \ \_/      __
>>     1'/ / / / /|'\\\ Y|\ \ \ \_/    .=[__]
>>     1/ / / / / Y, ;;_;| \_\_=~   .='.=T  T
>>     1 / / / / /::_YY;Y]\\\    .='.='  |  |
>>     1/ / / / / /Y;[] []\\\\.='.='     |  |
>>     1 / / / / / /Y[]_[]][='.='        |  |
>>     1/ / / / / / _[(((--;='           |  |
>>      '=_/ / /=' (((``;='              |  |
>>        `-/='   .```='                 |__|
>>             .='.='                  .-~_.'
>>          .='.='                  .='.-'
>>       .='.='                  .='.='
>>    ,='.='                  .='.='
>>    [='                  .='.='
>>    T                 .='.='
>>    |              .='.='
>>    |           .='.='
>>    |        .='.='
>>    |     .='.='
>>    |  ,='.='
>>    |-'.='
>>    `~~

>[][ gryphon-hawk type gargoyle thingy
>[][ kind of dragn like

Reminds me of the German Eagle motif from World War 2.

Bye,

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