Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 27 Oct 1998.
An ASCII question for the group...
alt.ascii-art
· 11 messages · 27 Oct 1998 - 5 Nov 1998
Layne wrote: > > Hello, > > I know there are programs that can make ascii art for you, and I know > there are programs that can type in something and it will come out as > ascii art...but here is my question. ARE ANY OF THESE PROGRAMS FOR THE > MACINTOSH? If so, please tell me. > not that I know of, but I have some advice, trash the mac
>Layne wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I know there are programs that can make ascii art for you, and I know >> there are programs that can type in something and it will come out as >> ascii art...but here is my question. ARE ANY OF THESE PROGRAMS FOR THE >> MACINTOSH? If so, please tell me If you can't find a program to put on your computer, this web site will generate it for you: http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/ -- .-~~-. (_^..^_) Lester||||AMC *Mythos Online : Internet Magazine of Lovecraftian Horror - Dead Alice* http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/redlion/157/deadal.htm *ANSI/ASCII* http://members.aol.com/lester5374/
temp <c.j...@erols.com> wrote: >Layne wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I know there are programs that can make ascii art for you, and I know >> there are programs that can type in something and it will come out as >> ascii art...but here is my question. ARE ANY OF THESE PROGRAMS FOR THE >> MACINTOSH? If so, please tell me. >> > not that I know of, but I have some advice, trash the mac I think you would do far better to go back to lurking, and staying in that mode forever, if all you can do is make stupid remarks to Mac computer users about their machines. :-( If you had read the FAQs you might have got some clues...but apparently you are much too "brite and intelniglant" to need newsgroup FAQs. Unless of course you find reading and understanding the FAQs beyond your abilities? How old did you say you were? 13 I think. It's all very sad really. Extract from the Ascii Art FAQ: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art > Subject: FAQ: New to ASCII art? Read me first! >-----------------------------------------------------< __ __ _ | \/ | ___ _ __ ___ ___ _ __ __ _ ___ ___ __| | | |\/| |/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \/ __| '_ \ / _` |/ __/ _ \/ _` | | | | | (_) | | | | (_) \__ \ |_) | (_| | (_| __/ (_| | |_|_ |_|\___/|_| |_|\___/|___/ .__/ \__,_|\___\___|\__,_| / _| ___ _ __ | |_ ___ |_| | |_ / _ \| '_ \| __/ __| | _| (_) | | | | |_\__ \ |_| \___/|_| |_|\__|___/ Almost all ASCII art is created and intended to be viewed in a monospaced, or fixed width font. Find your operating system/computer on the list below and find a font on your system that is on the list. Windows: FixedSys Courier New Courier Lucida Console Topaz New Monotype.com Terminal Lucida Sans Typewiter OCR A Extended OCRB Amiga: Topaz (In ROM) Courier (Supplied with WorkBench 2+) Pearl Siesta XEN (Comes with MagicWB) XCourier (Comes with MagicWB) ascii tiny AppleMac: Courier Monaco ZTerm Acorn: Corpus, Homerton, System (all three in Resources) If you can`t find any of the fonts on the list, please try looking at this in all fonts available: iiiii iiiii iiiii iiiii| mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm| In a fixed width font, both of the | symbols should match in distance from the left side of the screen. If you find a common font that isn`t on the list, please email mar...@bigfoot.com and tell me about it, along with what operating system/computer it is from. .---- To get a Monospaced/Fixed Width font in MS Outlook Express --> |Click Tools/ Options. |Click the Read tab. |Click the Fonts button. |Select Courier or another proportional font for ALL of the listboxes. |Select Smallest. |Click OK. |Click OK. '------------------ (Thanks to aardvarko) -------------------------> >-----------------------------------------------------< _____ _ |_ _|____ _| |_ | |/ _ \ \/ / __| | | __/> <| |_ _|_|\___/_/\_\\__| | ____|__| (_) |_ ___ _ __ ___ | _| / _` | | __/ _ \| '__/ __| | |__| (_| | | || (_) | | \__ \ |_____\__,_|_|\__\___/|_| |___/ A lot of ASCII art is made in a text editor - usually like a wordprocessor but without text formatting functions. Unix: vi pico emacs jed joe ed Windows95: Notepad (Comes with Windows!) EDIT.COM (Comes with windows!) MicroEMACS EditPad PFE UltraEdit (www.ultraedit.com) TextPad (www.textpad.com) Windows3: Notepad (Comes with Windows!) MicroEMACS PFE UltraEdit (www.ultraedit.com) MSDOS: EDIT.COM (Comes with DOS 5 and 6 - Type EDIT at command line) QEdit MicroEmacs GNU Emacs Amiga: Ed (On Workbench Disk - run 'Ed <filename>' in shell) MicroEMACS (Supplied with Workbench on Extras disk) Blacks Editor CygnusEd AZ NotePad (included with Workbench 1.2 and 1.3) AppleMac: Nisus SimpleText (included with MacOS) TeachText (included with MacOS) Saint Edit (shareware $10) BBEdit (commercial but free light version is available) Tex-Edit Plus (shareware) Linux: joe nedit Acorn: !Edit (in Resources) >-----------------------------------------------------< =================================================================== From: sco...@aol.com (ScottCram) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Mac tools for Ascii Art Date: 3 Oct 1997 05:29:10 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: <199...@ladder01.news.aol.com> Since I've found Ascii art tools much harder to find for the mac than for the PC, here's some help for fellow Mac users. I found two excellent programs at CNET's "download.com" site (http://www.download.com): Pict2AsciiFAT 1.03: Excellent Pict to ASCII converter. Includes the ability to zoom in/out, auto contrast, optimization for screen or printer, allows you to choose from standard ascii characters or full use of the font, and allows you to change the font. All this on the fly! It will also automatically weed out the non-monospaced fonts if you choose. Email Effects: The equivalent of MacPaint for Mac ASCII artists. It will automatically draw freehand, straight lines, rectangles, ovals and ASCII'd fonts (this feature could be better). Stretch, shrink, rotate, erase, fill, and other features all waiting for your artistic touch! Check out download.com, and use the word "Ascii" to search for these and other programs (For Mac AND IBM). Scott Cram ==================================================================== Bye,
Hello, I know there are programs that can make ascii art for you, and I know there are programs that can type in something and it will come out as ascii art...but here is my question. ARE ANY OF THESE PROGRAMS FOR THE MACINTOSH? If so, please tell me. Reply post to this message. or E-mail me at lan...@hotmail.com Thanks. Layne
.----- On Tue, 27 Oct 1998 03:17:31 -0500, Layne posted:
|Hello,
|
|I know there are programs that can make ascii art for you, and I know
|there are programs that can type in something and it will come out as
|ascii art...but here is my question. ARE ANY OF THESE PROGRAMS FOR THE
|MACINTOSH? If so, please tell me.
|
|Reply post to this message. or E-mail me at lan...@hotmail.com
|
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I believe you can download a version of FIGlet (the program for making ascii
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Layne wrote: >... > I know there are programs that can make ascii art for you, and I know > there are programs that can type in something and it will come out as > ascii art...but here is my question. ARE ANY OF THESE PROGRAMS FOR THE > MACINTOSH? If so, please tell me. >... Yes, there is a version of Figlet for the Macintosh. Go to ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/program/mac/ and read the README.txt file to choose the version which suits you. You can also run Figlet on the Web, at http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/ and other places. Finally, please ignore temp's reply to your message -- temp is just being a troll (making an inflammatory and untrue statement without any evidence). Regards -- .._o Matthew Thomas (mpt26 @ student . canterbury . ac . nz) ..://\/ Visit my site: http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpt26/ ..:_/\ Read my column on Sundays: http://www.newsroom.co.nz/ ..:/ ASCII ART FAQ: http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpt26/art/ascii/
Matthew Thomas <mpt...@spamfree.land> wrote: >Finally, please ignore temp's reply to your message -- temp is just >being a troll (making an inflammatory and untrue statement without any >evidence). >Regards Matthew, I do believe you and I are actually in agreement! :-) " If that is so, sing Derry down Derry It's evident very...our tastes are one. So let us go and merrily marry Nor tardily tarry till day is done. It's evident very, we'll merrily marry, Nor tardily tarry till...DAY...IS...DONE...! " -- From "The Mikado" by Gilbert & Sullivan. .-------. / . '`\ / ' ,( |',- _| | \_ `--' | __) .-------. ,-- _ -' / \ ,' `. | \_ \ / \ `. (-).' (.\`` | `. `. `| `- - | . \`/ /___ 7 | \ / ' \`,( | , /\ ' ` / ` \ | ________ ( `-_` `. / | |,'mt-2 `"""-/ `. `._ _/ | ` / `- ) \ | ) / '--`=/__' \ ' / / `--._ `-._________\ \ \ <BP.. `.- | /". `. \) | | `./ / | , / / ) / \ / / / \ / \ ' /rm ` Bye,
> > _____ _ > |_ _|____ _| |_ > | |/ _ \ \/ / __| > | | __/> <| |_ > _|_|\___/_/\_\\__| > | ____|__| (_) |_ ___ _ __ ___ > | _| / _` | | __/ _ \| '__/ __| > | |__| (_| | | || (_) | | \__ \ > |_____\__,_|_|\__\___/|_| |___/ > > A lot of ASCII art is made in a text editor - usually like a wordprocessor > but without text formatting functions. [...] > Acorn: !Edit (in Resources) Nobody on the Acorn platform uses !Edit even if it comes as a standard with the system. We use !Zap or (!StrongEd) as text editors. -- | ._. | Check me out @ HTTP://perso.wanadoo.fr/habett | (=) | st....@wanadoo.fr et ICQ:21255840 | /'\ | Clear your cache Cancel your dreams Be a fashion victim
.----- On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:56:59 +0100, stephane HAbeTT roux posted: |> |> _____ _ |> |_ _|____ _| |_ |> | |/ _ \ \/ / __| |> | | __/> <| |_ |> _|_|\___/_/\_\\__| |> | ____|__| (_) |_ ___ _ __ ___ |> | _| / _` | | __/ _ \| '__/ __| |> | |__| (_| | | || (_) | | \__ \ |> |_____\__,_|_|\__\___/|_| |___/ |> |> A lot of ASCII art is made in a text editor - usually like a wordprocessor |> but without text formatting functions. | |[...] | |> Acorn: !Edit (in Resources) | |Nobody on the Acorn platform uses !Edit even if it comes as a standard with |the system. We use !Zap or (!StrongEd) as text editors. | '----------------------- Thank you as always for your help with the listings. Since I am not an Acorn user I rely on outside input for that and a few of the other sections. (One question - why do they all start with '!'?) Have fun! -Mart |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
Martin Atkins wrote: > > .----- On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:56:59 +0100, stephane HAbeTT roux > |... > |> Acorn: !Edit (in Resources) > | > |Nobody on the Acorn platform uses !Edit even if it comes as a > |standard with the system. We use !Zap or (!StrongEd) as text editors. > | > '----------------------- > > Thank you as always for your help with the listings. Since I am not an > Acorn user I rely on outside input for that and a few of the other > sections. > > (One question - why do they all start with '!'?) IIRC, a ! in front of a filename indicates that it is (a) an executable (! being the Acorn equivalent of .EXE); (b) an `executable folder' which means that double-clicking the folder will run a specified program inside it rather than showing the contents of the folder. ObAscii: _ / \ |mmm| \H7 ,-. ` Extremely lame, I know, but at least it's on-topic. ttfn -- .._o Matthew `nobody uses Amiga Notepad, either' Thomas ..://\/ Visit my site: http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpt26/ ..:_/\ Read my column on Sundays: http://www.newsroom.co.nz/ ..:/ ASCII ART FAQ: http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpt26/art/ascii/
.----- On Sat, 31 Oct 1998 20:09:57 +1300, Matthew Thomas posted:
|Martin Atkins wrote:
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|> .----- On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:56:59 +0100, stephane HAbeTT roux
|> |...
|> |> Acorn: !Edit (in Resources)
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|> |Nobody on the Acorn platform uses !Edit even if it comes as a
|> |standard with the system. We use !Zap or (!StrongEd) as text editors.
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|> Thank you as always for your help with the listings. Since I am not an
|> Acorn user I rely on outside input for that and a few of the other
|> sections.
|>
|> (One question - why do they all start with '!'?)
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|IIRC, a ! in front of a filename indicates that it is
|(a) an executable (! being the Acorn equivalent of .EXE);
|(b) an `executable folder' which means that double-clicking the folder
| will run a specified program inside it rather than showing the
| contents of the folder.
|
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Thank you ... I`m glad there is a good reason!!!!
*Tries to think of a humourous ASCIIdows app/window.... and fails.*
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