SigZag?

I just recieved this on CNet Shareware dispatch:


MODERN ART

Email may be the Internet's true killer application, but its lack of
image support imposes severe limitations where creativity is concerned.
SigZag offers a terrific enhancement to your stark email, enabling you to
end every message with a personalized ASCII art signature. There are
7,000 prepackaged pieces of ASCII art from which to choose, including
animals, comics, transportation, and mythical creatures. SigZag also lets
you select from thousands of tag lines and design your own ASCII images
with its assortment of Figlet fonts. With the program's graphical
interface, you can even create entire ASCII texts, embedding pictures
throughout the body of your messages. Included with SigZag is Sliver, a
helper utility that lets you quickly scan all the ASCII art included with
the application. In addition, you'll find a library editor that enables
you to distribute your own custom libraries.

FACT FILE:
Program name:   SigZag
Version:        99b
Size:           2.4MB
Developed by:   James Dill
License:        freeware
Requirements:   Windows 95/98/NT

Give it a happy ending:

http://www.shareware.com/DD/sw/0,156,0310-1-004,00.html


Was this the program that caused a huge copyright arguement about a
half-year ago when it's author (Kangaroo?) wanted to include ASCII Art and
charge for the program? Nice to see that it ended up free... If I had a
decent speed net connection I'd download it just to see whose ASCII Art is
included, but 2.4MB is a bit hefty for me unless I do it at work.

Anyone else want to try it?

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>Subject: SigZag?
>From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
>Date: 3/12/99 6:52 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <36e...@news.vossnet.net>
>

>FACT FILE:
>Program name:   SigZag
>Version:        99b
>Size:           2.4MB
>Developed by:   James Dill
>License:        freeware
>Requirements:   Windows 95/98/NT
>
>Give it a happy ending:
>
>http://www.shareware.com/DD/sw/0,156,0310-1-004,00.html
>
>
>Was this the program that caused a huge copyright arguement about a
>half-year ago when it's author (Kangaroo?) wanted to include ASCII Art and
>charge for the program? Nice to see that it ended up free... If I had a
>decent speed net connection I'd download it just to see whose ASCII Art is
>included, but 2.4MB is a bit hefty for me unless I do it at work.
>
>Anyone else want to try it?

     I tried it, but I can't get it to work. It gives me a "runtime error 50003
unexpected error" message and then crashes before it even displays the program
window. In one of the folders for the program (SIGS) it has this James Dill sig
and a sig for Kangaroo, they both have the same web adress so I would assume
that it is Kangaroo. I can't even look at the ASCII because they have been
formatted somehow and the viewer that comes with it gives me the same error
message darnit.
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Lester5374 wrote:
> 
> >Subject: SigZag?
> >From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
> >Date: 3/12/99 6:52 PM Eastern Standard Time
> >Message-id: <36e...@news.vossnet.net>
> >
> 
> >FACT FILE:
> >Program name:   SigZag
> >Version:        99b
> >Size:           2.4MB
> >Developed by:   James Dill
> >License:        freeware
> >Requirements:   Windows 95/98/NT
> >
> >Give it a happy ending:
> >
> >http://www.shareware.com/DD/sw/0,156,0310-1-004,00.html
> >
> >
> >Was this the program that caused a huge copyright arguement about a
> >half-year ago when it's author (Kangaroo?) wanted to include ASCII Art and
> >charge for the program? Nice to see that it ended up free... If I had a
> >decent speed net connection I'd download it just to see whose ASCII Art is
> >included, but 2.4MB is a bit hefty for me unless I do it at work.
> >
> >Anyone else want to try it?
> 
>      I tried it, but I can't get it to work. It gives me a "runtime error 50003
> unexpected error" message and then crashes before it even displays the program
> window. In one of the folders for the program (SIGS) it has this James Dill sig
> and a sig for Kangaroo, they both have the same web adress so I would assume
> that it is Kangaroo. I can't even look at the ASCII because they have been
> formatted somehow and the viewer that comes with it gives me the same error
> message darnit.
> --
I downloaded it...there are some nice ascii's in there,some are 
credited and some are not...You are right about the encoding..
would be nice to figure it out and dump all the ascii to text
files......


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Lester5374 wrote:
> 
> In one of the folders for the program (SIGS) it has this James Dill sig
> and a sig for Kangaroo, they both have the same web adress so I would assume
> that it is Kangaroo.

Yes "James Dill" and "Kangaroo" is the same person.


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>ubject: Re: SigZag?
>From: "Donovan" <don...@misslink.net>
>Date: 3/14/99 9:49 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <m%PG2.52$BK4...@news12.ispnews.com>
>
>Yeah it was this program Martin. But you know what. I'm glad one of our own
>gang wrote it and is doing well with it! I hope he keeps working on it and
>he can use my stuff anytime he wants.
>
>I actually feel flattered when I see someone using one of my sigs.

This is in relation with my former post to this thread.

Subj:	 Re: bug report
Date:	3/14/99 7:30:45 AM Eastern Standard Time
From:	jam...@technologist.com (James Dill)
To:	Les...@aol.com

Les...@aol.com wrote:
> 
>      I downloaded your Sig Zag program, but I can't get it to work. I get the
> error message "Runtime Error 50003 unexpected error" after the little splash
> screen that says what the program is, and it crashes before I get to see the
> program window. I have un/installed it three times, and it does the same
thing
> every time.

For the last 2 days I've had quite a few emails regarding this error.
After a lot of scrounging around the net, and some help from a
SigZag user, I think I've found the solution to this problem.  I have
found out that this is a `Catch All' error - which REALLY!!
is not at all usefull.  But some more searching tends to point
towards one file.

Download the fix at:
 http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/4942/update.zip  55 KB
and follow the instructions in the readme.

This has worked for those who've tried it... but because of the nature
of this error I can't guarantee it'll work.  If it doesn't, email
me because I know 2 other files which are apparently suspect. 

Regards,
James Dill

PS: Just on a put-the-blame-on-someone-else note, I'd like to 
mention this isn't a programming bug on my end :)  I put the
blame squarely on Micro$oft for bringing out new versions of 
files which are NOT backwards compatible!!! ;)
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Yeah it was this program Martin. But you know what. I'm glad one of our own
gang wrote it and is doing well with it! I hope he keeps working on it and
he can use my stuff anytime he wants.

I actually feel flattered when I see someone using one of my sigs.


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Martin Atkins wrote in message <36e...@news.vossnet.net>...
>
>I just recieved this on CNet Shareware dispatch:
>
>
>MODERN ART
>
>Email may be the Internet's true killer application, but its lack of
>image support imposes severe limitations where creativity is concerned.
>SigZag offers a terrific enhancement to your stark email, enabling you to
>end every message with a personalized ASCII art signature. There are
>7,000 prepackaged pieces of ASCII art from which to choose, including
>animals, comics, transportation, and mythical creatures. SigZag also lets
>you select from thousands of tag lines and design your own ASCII images
>with its assortment of Figlet fonts. With the program's graphical
>interface, you can even create entire ASCII texts, embedding pictures
>throughout the body of your messages. Included with SigZag is Sliver, a
>helper utility that lets you quickly scan all the ASCII art included with
>the application. In addition, you'll find a library editor that enables
>you to distribute your own custom libraries.
>
>FACT FILE:
>Program name:   SigZag
>Version:        99b
>Size:           2.4MB
>Developed by:   James Dill
>License:        freeware
>Requirements:   Windows 95/98/NT
>
>Give it a happy ending:
>
>http://www.shareware.com/DD/sw/0,156,0310-1-004,00.html
>
>
>Was this the program that caused a huge copyright arguement about a
>half-year ago when it's author (Kangaroo?) wanted to include ASCII Art and
>charge for the program? Nice to see that it ended up free... If I had a
>decent speed net connection I'd download it just to see whose ASCII Art is
>included, but 2.4MB is a bit hefty for me unless I do it at work.
>
>Anyone else want to try it?
>
>-Martin
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>|  \/  |__ _ _ _| |_(_)_ _
>| |\/| / _` | '_|  _| | ' \   o  Happy Birthday to me...
>|_|  |_\__,_|_| _\__|_|_||_| /|\ It`s my birthday you see...
>    /_\| |_| |_(_)_ _  ___   / \ On the 25th day of March...
>   / _ \  _| / / | ' \(_-<       Happy Birthday to me...
>  /_/ \_\__|_\_\_|_||_/__/
>  mart.atkins @ bigfoot.com --- REPLY ADDRESS IS ROT13`ed
>      http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/ascii.htm
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