REQ: Color Ascii Art Picture

On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:58:59 GMT, Rene Boudreault
<ren...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

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>even if it could just show up in white or something other than terminal
>green.
>
>I know the codes start with a special character that you get when you
>press esc or something like that.
>but I can not ge that code to appear in notepad or wordad and thats all
>i know how to use.

Notepad is fine, you just have to get an escape code into a text file
so you can cut and paste it in. Here's what I do.

type this at a dos prompt:

ECHO {alt-2-7} > escape.txt

By {Alt-2-7} I mean "Hold down alt and hit 2, then 7, on the numeric
keypad."

Now, notepad escape.txt and hilite the character (It looks like a
little box). That is you 'escape'

From there, my memory gets foggy. Most colors are something like:

{esc}[...  where the ... is numbers or letter or something. The [ may
be a ] too. Don't recall. I have a feeling though that your biggest
problem is getting the ESC in there. Cut and paste that from your
escape.txt file, and you're set!

Also note that some terminals won't see colors no matter what, and
some monitors will show up the colors poorly. I would suggest you
leave the text alone. Everybody can see the default colors :)

--Wesley

The only stupid question is the unasked question.
And that's a good thing, because I hate stupid questions!

My Mud runs on a server running slackware 4.0

Muds work by sending text only for those that do not know.

The file that displays right now is entitled mudtitle.ans

I know that color can be put into this file I have seen it on other
muds.
I have a file with color but its not the name of my mud.

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           )  )  || || ||  || (( || || | || (( ||
          /-_/   \\,/  \\  \\, \/\\ \\/  \\  \/\\

That is what i currently looks like
it appears in four files
mudtitle
mudtitle.ans
mudtitle.asc
mudtitle.rip

even if it could just show up in white or something other than terminal
green.

I know the codes start with a special character that you get when you
press esc or something like that.
but I can not ge that code to appear in notepad or wordad and thats all
i know how to use.

If someone would like the files I could send them as well.

Thanks 
Voltar

PS Like I said if anyone has a better picture that depicts adventure in
a fantasy world feel free to submit it or suggest it.

Thanks Again
voltar

Rene Boudreault <ren...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

: That is what i currently looks like
: it appears in four files
: mudtitle
: mudtitle.ans
: mudtitle.asc
: mudtitle.rip

: even if it could just show up in white or something other than terminal
: green.

Does your RIP have colour?

Hmm... does anyone know anything about the pre-RIP improvement on ANSI
colour... Avatar?

On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:58:59 GMT, Rene Boudreault posted:
>
>I know the codes start with a special character that you get when you
>press esc or something like that.
>but I can not ge that code to appear in notepad or wordad and thats all
>i know how to use.
>

Ahh, so you *are* talking about ANSI escape codes.

These come in the format 
ESC[31m;
Where 'ESC' is the ASCII character 27, escape.

You can colour ASCII pics nicely and save them in ANSI format using a
program called TheDraw! which you can find at ACiD Artpacks:
http://artpacks.acid.org/

This is a DOS program though, not a Linux or Windows one. (It does, however,
run fine in a DOS window in Windows 95/98)

If you want to do the job manually, head boldly into DOS once more, and open
'edit'... open the MS-DOS prompt and type "edit" (without quotes) and press
enter. In this text editor you can press Ctrl+P followed by the Esc key to
insert the escape character to start the escape sequence. You can find the
ANSI colour codes in the MS-DOS help file, which is on your Windows 95/98 CD
in \OTHER\OLDMSDOS (help.com). In that, look at the help for 'ANSI.SYS'
right at the start of the command list. Scroll down and you will find all
the info on using Escape sequences. The colour codes will work fine over a
telnet or similar connection, but some of the others are DOS-specific so
should be used with care (and lots of testing).

Kind Regards,
-Martin
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