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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 17 Mar 1998.
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where's GIFscii?

where's GIFscii?

alt.ascii-art · 3 messages · 17 Mar 1998 - 18 Mar 1998
lina lubig <lin...@gmd.de> 17 Mar 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
hi there,
i am seaching the net for a tiny little shareware programme called:
GIFscii
meant to help create ascii-art. it coul not be found. if you know, where
to find it, or if something else of the kind exists, please let me know.

Donovan <bak...@gwtc.net> ASCII art 18 Mar 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
lina lubig wrote:
> 
> hi there,
> i am seaching the net for a tiny little shareware programme called:
> GIFscii
> meant to help create ascii-art. it coul not be found. if you know, where
> to find it, or if something else of the kind exists, please let me know.


It was down for a few days, but it is back up and running.
http://www.io360.com/v2/yo/asciiworld/gs.html

Donovan

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Lina,

	Familiarize yourself with our FAQ immediately.
http://artpacks.acid.org/faqs/faq-altasciiart.html

 5.Can someone convert this picture to ASCII, please? 

     Yes, but there are a few things you should know before
     making this sort of request. Firstly, there are computer
     programs which convert graphics files of a particular
     format (usually GIF) to ASCII art. They go by names such
     as ascgif, gifa, gifscii, and gif2ascii. Do a Web search
     for any of these programs to find places where you can
     download them. Try: 

          gopher://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu/1A/atools.70 
          ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii/. 

     However, the output from these programs is often not good
     (fiddling with the picture in an image-editing program
     beforehand may help). In this case, you can post a request
     to the newsgroup asking for someone to `asciify' it, but
     please don't post the picture itself. To save downloading
     time for people reading the messages, if possible give the
     URL (Web address) of the picture instead.

     If you saw the picture on a Web page, you can find out its
     URL by right- clicking on it (on the Macintosh, holding down
     the mouse button) and selecting `Open this image' (or its
     equivalent for your Web browser), then copy the URL from the
     Location bar to your news program (make sure you copy it
     exactly).

     If the picture is not on a Web site anywhere, put it up on
     your own site (if you have one), or get a friend to put it
     up on their site, and post the URL to alt.ascii-art. If you
     can't do this, post your request to alt.ascii-art and wait
     for an artist to reply, then e-mail the picture to them.

Regards,

-R-


On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:08:00 +0200, lina lubig <lin...@gmd.de> wrote:

%hi there,
%i am seaching the net for a tiny little shareware programme called:
%GIFscii
%meant to help create ascii-art. it coul not be found. if you know, where
%to find it, or if something else of the kind exists, please let me know.

-- enq...@npvq.bet

 RaD Man % ACiD Productions Founder % Artpacks Archive Founder

  Words to live by: " It's better to be controversial for the
  right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons. "

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