Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 7 Jan 1996.
How To...
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· 3 messages · 7 Jan 1996 - 10 Jan 1996
This looks like the right group so...How do I display ascii art?
(Yes, I am serious!)
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pur...@fn1.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
: This looks like the right group so...How do I display ascii art?
: (Yes, I am serious!)
Set your screen to a large size (some art is so huge that it
needs a wide printer and long paper). Choose a non-proportional
font. And .. look at it (in any viewer or editor) :) Or print it
as text. What's so difficult about this?
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On 7 Jan 1996 pur...@fn1.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote: > This looks like the right group so...How do I display ascii art? On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Rosemary Lyndall Wemm wrote: > Where? This group? Somewhere else? > For what purpose? > I'm really not sure what it is that you want to do? Be a bit more > specific and I'll try to help. On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, John R. Purdy wrote: > What is this? The Spanish Inquisition? (Hide the comfy chair) > I have gathered a number of .ans files (purportedly containing artwork of > some form) and would like to display them on my terminal. Every time I > open or read one I just get a screenful of ascii characters (this might > have some technical merit but to me is not particularly artsy) How do I > display these files? There is no need to be rude. You didn't supply enough information in your first request for anyone to be able to help you. I simply asked you to expand in areas which might help me understand what you needed. What you have now told me is that they are NOT ascii art files [which usually end in .asc or .txt] but ANSI art files. That explains why you might be having trouble reading them. ANSI art uses the extended ASCII character set and not every terminal is set up to interpret these characters as "text" characters. Here are some ASCII "Hi's". HH HH II HH HH II HHHHHH II HH HH II HH HH II =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@*******#@ =+*#@ =+*#@*******#@ =+*#@ =+*#@"""""~*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ You should have no trouble reading this on whatever system you have. I've attached a file to your letter which includes both this plus an ANSI "Hi", so you can see the difference. [I can't include this in the bulk of the letter because PINE would note the strange characters and translate the whole letter into base64: which your system might not be able to translate.] If you try to view the file on your terminal it will probably read as nonsense. In order to view the file you will need to save or export it to your home directory and then download it onto a PC. FTP and downloading protocols will give you a choice of format: choose BINARY format, zmodem or xmodem, not ASCII. If you choose ASCII some of the characters will be translated into format instructions: you don't want this to happen. You should be able to read the results as "art" with most standard text readers or editors on a PC. If you don't have access to a PC then ANSI art is not available to you at the moment. The development of ASCII art came about because many people don't own a PC and only have access to a terminal which cannot handle ANSI code. - RLW -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rosemary Lyndall Wemm Rosemary from DownUnder _--_|\ Clinical Neuro-psychologist lyn...@haywire.DIALix.oz.au Perth / \ Perth, Western Australia ber...@perth.DIALix.oz.au -->\_.--._/ ------------------- http://haywire.dialix.com/~lyndall -----------------v- This is an ANSI "hi": ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» º º º º º º º º ÌÍÍ͹ º º º º º º º º º ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ°±²Û°±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ°±²Û°±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ °±²ÛÛ This is an ASCII "hi": HH HH II HH HH II HHHHHH II HH HH II HH HH II =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@*******#@ =+*#@ =+*#@*******#@ =+*#@ =+*#@"""""~*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@ =+*#@
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