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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 23 Oct 1996.
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alt.ascii-art · 2 messages · 23 Oct 1996 - 24 Oct 1996
Cyrek <crw...@comp.brad.ac.uk> ASCII art 23 Oct 1996 00:00 · permalink · report 

Someone wrote me and suggested that I load the file into paintbrush as
text and shrink it... I've found a better way, but it *is* dependent on
the fonts you have on your system.

I load the ascii into Word for Windows, "Select All", and change the font
to "Terminal" at size 4.5. I then "Print Preview" and press
'print-screen', hence putting a bitmap onto the clipboard.
I then tidy it up in Paintbrush.

But, unfortunately, it's a bit of a hack, and I recently noticed one of
the assumedly regular posts on anti-aliasing and such, and wondered if
anyone had come up with an executable which decodes the text in that way?
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Cyrek the Illogical - Eeek!      qp
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Him <sjw...@ucsd.edu> 24 Oct 1996 00:00 · permalink · report 
Cyrek wrote:
> 
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>    || ||    - Don't know what it is, I just made it...
>  /====||=\
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>   ~~   ~~

That?  Why that's the Command key.  A bastardization of our own Control key 
frequently found on Macintrash keyboards.  IBM RULZ!!! :-D






Steve

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