GIF to ASCII Conversion Utilities

Since my postings of the converted picture of Einstein's Tongue I have had a
stream of private requests for the conversion utility I used.

It was Sushil who did the conversion from GIF to ASCII not me !

However to head off all this private mail here is an extract from the
Ascii-Art FAQ:

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                GIF to ASCII converters  (from the FAQ)

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    You can get Gifscii for many systems, and the source code from:

                 Chris' FTP site
       ->  Host: ftp.ncsu.edu
           Path: pub/ncsu/chking/Archive

                 Scarecrow's FTP Site
       ->  Host: ftp.wwa.com
        Address: 198.49.174.1
           Path: pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii

                 Both Chris' and Scarcecrow's sites have the following:

                 Version: File name

                   MSDOS: Gifscii.exe
              Unix (Sun): Gifscii.ux
               Macintosh: MacGifscii.hqx
                   Amiga: Gifscii.lha
           Digital Alpha: ALPHAGifscii.exe
             Digital VAX: VAXGifscii.exe
                c-source: Gifsciiv2.2src

    You can get Gifscii for the Mac, and the source code from:

                 Jorn's FTP site
       ->  Host: ftp.mcs.com
           Path: mcsnet.users/jorn/ascii-art

    You can FTP ASCGIF from:

       ->  Host: usc.edu
           Path: archive/usenet/sources/comp.sources.misc/volume30/ascgif

       ->  Host: wuarchive.wustl.edu
           Path: usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume30/ascgif

       ->  Host: ftp.uu.net
           Path: usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume30/ascgif

    You can get GIF2ANSI from:

       ->   BBS: Exec-PC (414) 789-4210
                 GIF2ANSI.ZIP is in the "Mahoney MS-DOS" file collection.

    You can get gif2txt from:

       ->   BBS: Aquila BBS (708) 820-8344]
                 gif2txt.zip


     If you do NOT have FTP available, you can get Gifscii by email.
 To receive  _  send email to bob...@wwa.com with the subject line  _
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       File Name                   Version   Size    Subject line

    o  Gifscii for the Mac         2.2 - 37 K    REQUEST GIFSCII MAC
    o  Gifscii source code         2.2 - 51 K    REQUEST GIFSCII SOURCE

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None of these ftp sites had the actual 'source' code so It could be built
on the users home machines...

And... security related issue: Never, ever, download and install a binary
U will never know exactly what has been compiled.
--
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pgr...@nyx10.cs.du.edu  _Mentally Iffy_ http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~pgregg 
"Perl is the only thing you can uuencode and not notice."
		-- John Viega (aka Rust)

Hi folks,

I would be interessted in an Utility to convert GIF to ASCII, but I
think the ftp-Sites, that were named in this mail, were all in the
States. So: Is there anybody, who knows an ftp Site in Europe, better in
Germany, that can deliver these Utilities?

Thanx