ASCII>EXE

Does anybody know where to get a program that converts your
art to a self-displaying .exe or .com file? I tried the MS-DOS batch files,
but they don't allow > or < or /

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>Subject: ASCII>EXE
>From: ick...@my-dejanews.com
>Date: 1/28/99 11:41 PM Eastern Standard Time
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>Does anybody know where to get a program that converts your
>art to a self-displaying .exe or .com file? I tried the MS-DOS batch files,
>but they don't allow > or < or /

     Yeah, ACiDDRAW will do that (get it at WWW.ACID.ORG), it makes COM files.
You have to register it to make COMs that are more that one screen long.
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On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 04:41:13 GMT, ick...@my-dejanews.com wrote:

>Does anybody know where to get a program that converts your
>art to a self-displaying .exe or .com file? I tried the MS-DOS batch files,
>but they don't allow > or < or /

Graphic Workshop will do it.  It will do both Win and DOS, plus it can invert
colours (sorry, I'm from NZ) to white on black.  It's pretty flash.  You can
probably get it from www.shareware.com.


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ick...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know where to get a program that converts your
> art to a self-displaying .exe or .com file? I tried the MS-DOS batch files,
> but they don't allow > or < or /
> 
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well, the most simple solution would be to create a batch file which
displays the text file.
another possibility would be to write a short c-prog. there you can
simply include the text file and just list it on the screen.

bye the way - cray

You could just write a batch file like this:

// start batch file

@echo off
if "%1"=="" goto param
cls
echo.
echo *******************************
echo * ASCII Art Viewer by DerBluT *
echo *******************************
echo.
pause
type %1
goto end
:param
echo.
echo Usage: draw filename.txt
echo.
goto quit
:end
echo.
echo Thanks for using this batch file!
echo.
:quit

//end of btach file.
Just save this text as "draw.bat" somewhere.

=) Have fun

DerBluT