Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 29 Aug 1998.
What to use for Ascii art??
alt.ascii-art
· 7 messages · 29 Aug 1998 - 11 Sep 1998
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/
Zorak wrote: > What program is good for ascii art>? Pen and paper? (O0OOOh I'm bad) >;D -- `, ,\, # |/ ? | ~ )\ /_ /\ \____ joris bellenger (b'ger) / \_/ \ e-mail: svz...@xs4all.nl http://www.xs4all.nl/~svzanten/joris/ascii/main.html / < ______ _> \ /___/ ,___/____) |\/
In article <35E...@xs4all.nl>, joris bellenger <svz...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > Zorak wrote: > > > What program is good for ascii art>? > > Pen and paper? > (O0OOOh I'm bad) > >;D > -- > `, > ,\, # > |/ ? > | ~ )\ > /_ /\ \____ joris bellenger (b'ger) > / \_/ \ e-mail: svz...@xs4all.nl > http://www.xs4all.nl/~svzanten/joris/ascii/main.html > / < ______ _> \ > /___/ ,___/____) > |\/ Only if the pen and paper have been made from ascii characters! ____________ /(@)__________) (`/\ ha / | | `=\/\ ha ---%^^, | virtual | `=\/\ ha / >\ | parchment | `=\/ < \| | _\___ < |___________| ) ( ^^|\ (@)__________) ( INK ) / | ejm \___/ NOTE: I do not pick up my mail from the idirect address that you see. If you are e-mailing me and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- ___ ha cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca _/ | ,^%--- ha llizard aka ejm |_____| __<_ \ ha NOW who's being bad! --- == >/ [_____] __>,^ ASCII-ar+, ASCII & gif anima+ions ejm| | //| | www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/
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Zorak schrieb:
> What program is good for ascii art>?
.----- 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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