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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 29 Aug 1998.
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What to use for Ascii art??

What to use for Ascii art??

alt.ascii-art · 7 messages · 29 Aug 1998 - 11 Sep 1998
Zorak <zor...@home.com> 29 Aug 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
What program is good for ascii art>?

Zorak (zor...@home.com) wrote:
> What program is good for ascii art>?

Pico, vi, Edit, NotePad, and a host of others. Also, in a fixed-width
font, Word, WordPerfect, WordPad, and a host of others. Enjoy.

Michael Hamm
BA, Math, Jan.'01
msh...@nyu.edu
http://pages.nyu.edu/~msh210/

joris bellenger <svz...@xs4all.nl> ASCII art 2 Sep 1998 00:00 · permalink · report

Zorak wrote:

> What program is good for ascii art>?


Pen and paper?
(O0OOOh I'm bad)
>;D
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llizard <lli...@iNOdirect.ca> ASCII art 2 Sep 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
In article <35E...@xs4all.nl>, joris bellenger
<svz...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> Zorak wrote:
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> > What program is good for ascii art>?
> 
> Pen and paper?
> (O0OOOh I'm bad)
> >;D
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Only if the pen and paper have been made from ascii characters!

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Zorak schrieb:

> What program is good for ascii art>?

Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> ASCII art 9 Sep 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
.----- On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 20:54:27 GMT, Zorak posted:
|What program is good for ascii art>?
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A lot of ASCII art is made in a text editor - usually like a wordprocessor
but without text formatting functions.

Un*x:      vi
           pico
           emacs
           jed
           joe
           ed
           jove

Windows95: Notepad                                   (Comes with Windows!)
           EDIT.COM                                  (Comes with windows!)
           MicroEMACS
           EditPad
           PFE32
           UltraEdit                                   (www.ultraedit.com)
           TextPad                           (www.textpad.com - shareware)

Windows3:  Notepad                                   (Comes with Windows!)
           MicroEMACS
           PFE
           UltraEdit                                   (www.ultraedit.com)

MSDOS:     EDIT           (Comes with DOS 5/6 - Type EDIT at command line)
           QEdit
           MicroEmacs
           GNU Emacs
           TheDraw                                             (shareware)
           AcidDraw                                            (shareware)

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)
           TED                        (Included with ACID Blitz Basic 2.1)
           SuperTED              (Included with Blitz Basic support suite)

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)

Atari:     Everest
           QED
           Steno
           EditPro

Commodore  Zed
   64/128: NovaPic


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also u can make posters(if big enuf)(i like them huge) and havea  retro
look in your room

lil-Devil

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