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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 14 Jan 1998.
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Monospaced fonts and text editors - A quick guide!

Monospaced fonts and text editors - A quick guide!

alt.ascii-art · 5 messages · 14 Jan 1998 - 15 Jan 1998
Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> ASCII art 14 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink · report 
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|  \/  | ___  _ __   ___  ___ _ __   __ _  ___ ___  __| |
| |\/| |/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \/ __| '_ \ / _` |/ __/ _ \/ _` |
| |  | | (_) | | | | (_) \__ \ |_) | (_| | (_|  __/ (_| |
|_|_ |_|\___/|_| |_|\___/|___/ .__/ \__,_|\___\___|\__,_|
 / _| ___  _ __ | |_ ___     |_|
| |_ / _ \| '_ \| __/ __|
|  _| (_) | | | | |_\__ \ - a quick list
|_|  \___/|_| |_|\__|___/

Win95:    FixedSys
          Courier New
          Courier
          Lucida Console
          Topaz New
          Monotype.com

Amiga:    Topaz    (In ROM)
          Courier  (Supplied with WorkBench 2+)
          Pearl
          Siesta
          XEN      (Comes with MagicWB)
          XCourier (Comes with MagicWB)
          ascii
          ibm
          tiny

AppleMac: Courier
          Monaco
          ZTerm


 _____         _
|_   _|____  _| |_
  | |/ _ \ \/ / __|
  | |  __/>  <| |_
 _|_|\___/_/\_\\__|
| ____|__| (_) |_ ___  _ __ ___
|  _| / _` | | __/ _ \| '__/ __|
| |__| (_| | | || (_) | |  \__ \
|_____\__,_|_|\__\___/|_|  |___/

Unix:      emacs
           pico
           vi

Windows95: Notepad (Comes with Windows!)
           EDIT.COM (Comes with windows!)
           MicroEMACS

Windows3:  Notepad (Comes with Windows!)
           MicroEMACS

MSDOS:     EDIT.COM (Comes with DOS 5 and 6 - Type EDIT at command line)

Amiga:     Ed (On Workbench Disk - run 'Ed <filename>' in shell)
           MicroEMACS (Supplied with Workbench on Extras disk)
           Blacks Editor

AppleMac:  Nisus


List put together by Martin Atkins with the help of
* Randy Gardner
* Veronica Karlsson
* John Barger
* Ilmari Karonen
* Aardvarko





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Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> ASCII art 14 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink · report 

Ilmari Karonen has corrected me about the Amiga 'IBM' font, as it has not
gpt standard characters on it, so here`s the current list, minus the 'IBM'
font.......

-- START -->>>
  __  __                                                _
 |  \/  | ___  _ __   ___  ___ _ __   __ _  ___ ___  __| |
 | |\/| |/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \/ __| '_ \ / _` |/ __/ _ \/ _` |
 | |  | | (_) | | | | (_) \__ \ |_) | (_| | (_|  __/ (_| |
 |_|_ |_|\___/|_| |_|\___/|___/ .__/ \__,_|\___\___|\__,_|
  / _| ___  _ __ | |_ ___     |_|
 | |_ / _ \| '_ \| __/ __|
 |  _| (_) | | | | |_\__ \ - a quick list
 |_|  \___/|_| |_|\__|___/
 
 Win95:    FixedSys
           Courier New
           Courier
           Lucida Console
           Topaz New
           Monotype.com
 
 Amiga:    Topaz    (In ROM)
           Courier  (Supplied with WorkBench 2+)
           Pearl
           Siesta
           XEN      (Comes with MagicWB)
           XCourier (Comes with MagicWB)
           ascii
           tiny
 
 AppleMac: Courier
           Monaco
           ZTerm
 
 
  _____         _
 |_   _|____  _| |_
   | |/ _ \ \/ / __|
   | |  __/>  <| |_
  _|_|\___/_/\_\\__|
 | ____|__| (_) |_ ___  _ __ ___
 |  _| / _` | | __/ _ \| '__/ __|
 | |__| (_| | | || (_) | |  \__ \
 |_____\__,_|_|\__\___/|_|  |___/
 
 Unix:      emacs
            pico
            vi
 
 Windows95: Notepad (Comes with Windows!)
            EDIT.COM (Comes with windows!)
            MicroEMACS
 
 Windows3:  Notepad (Comes with Windows!)
            MicroEMACS
 
 MSDOS:     EDIT.COM (Comes with DOS 5 and 6 - Type EDIT at command line)
 
 Amiga:     Ed (On Workbench Disk - run 'Ed <filename>' in shell)
            MicroEMACS (Supplied with Workbench on Extras disk)
            Blacks Editor
 
 AppleMac:  Nisus
 
 
 List put together by Martin Atkins with the help of
 * Randy Gardner
 * Veronica Karlsson
 * John Barger
 * Ilmari Karonen
 * Aardvarko
--- END --->>>

Anyone else want to add some text editors/fonts?
-- 
    |||||     ________________________________
   | o o |
   |  >  |     |\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _    A.K.A
   | \_/ |     |  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>      M G A
    \___/     ________________________________
     | |                       __         _
 ._ _  _..__|_  _._|_| o._  _ /  \|_ o __|__  __|_  _ _ ._ _
 | | |(_||  |_o(_| |_|<|| |_>| (|/|_)|(_||(_)(_)|_o(_(_)| | |
                              \__      _|
   >>>>>    http://vibes.vossnet.co.uk/i/ighaig/     <<<<<
              ________________________________
Hayley Jane Wakenshaw <flu...@quadrant.xs4all.nl.spambgone> 15 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink · report 
Valentin Valciu <axi...@skylab.math.unibuc.roo> writes:
>Martin Atkins wrote:
>
>[8< snip the list 8<]
>
>> 
>> Anyone else want to add some text editors/fonts?
>>
>
>Editor:
> * joe (on Linux; it comes with the system)
>Font:
> * Terminal (on Windows, used for DOS windows)

Cygnus Ed on the Amiga. :-)
There rae lots more too, and as soon as I can find
out their names I'll post them. 

-hayley
Valentin Valciu <axi...@skylab.math.unibuc.roo> ASCII art 15 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink · report 
Martin Atkins wrote:

[8< snip the list 8<]

> 
> Anyone else want to add some text editors/fonts?
>

Editor:
 * joe (on Linux; it comes with the system)
Font:
 * Terminal (on Windows, used for DOS windows)


axiac
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Brock Kevin Nambo <new...@earthling.net> 15 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink · report 
AAAAAAAAAAAh..

Please please please do not use ISO-Latin-2 (ISO-8859-2) when posting here.
It totally fronks Outlook Express into "proportional font mode."
Which then means I can't see the pretty ascii pictures. :\

>>BKNambo
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Valentin Valciu wrote in message
<34B...@skylab.math.unibuc.roo>...
>Martin Atkins wrote:
>
>[8< snip the list 8<]
>
>>
>> Anyone else want to add some text editors/fonts?
>>
>
>Editor:
> * joe (on Linux; it comes with the system)
>Font:
> * Terminal (on Windows, used for DOS windows)
>
>
>axiac
>--
>      ____  ____  __  ______
>   ___\ \ \/ /_/__\ \/ ____/  To answer me      | Best experienced
>  / __  / / / / __  / /__     remove an 'o' --. |      .----------.
> /_____/_/\_\/_____/_____/    from my address | | with | Fixedsys |
> axi...@skylab.math.unibuc.roo <---------------' |      '----------'
>

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