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From: user@tabbs.com (Oogly Man)
Subject: Re: ASCII signature you've never seen before.
Date: 1996/03/08
Message-ID: <4hqjf5$3ba@xmission.xmission.com>#1/1
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organization: I-News .930x8/Some Place, Some Time
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Quoting Eli The Bearded to All:
> Oogly Man <user@tabbs.com> wrote:
> >Well, if everybody would just load an ANSi driver then you could have 
> the same 
> >characters  (just can't post cntrl codes)
> 
> Well if everybody would just use the same computer and the
> same operating system and be just like me I would never have
> to find someone different.
> 
> There exist hundreds or thousands of different terminal
> types that are reading netnews. While a lot of those are
> capible using an ANSI mode, it is far from all of them.
> I personally use a monochrome monitor most of the time. When
> I do use a color monitor I am often annoyed by ugly color
> usages. 
> 
> For an example of acceptible use of ansi escapes, you can
> try my compiling and running my signature. You will note I
> did not go overboard with exotic escape codes.
> 
> Elijah
> -- /* if(TERM==ANSI) {cc -Dc=`"\e[32m"` sig.c} else {cc -Dc=\"\" sig.c}
> */
> e(int d){printf("%c",d);}main(){int 
> a=0,b;for(b=141596885;b>8;b>>=4)e(97-(
> 
> b>>22)+(b&15));puts(c);for(;a<128;){b="}////+c)cy////*494y////*979y///+e*"
> 
> "959*ey///*I5Q*939*I5Qy///*96bI3Qb69y///*!777!y///*Y6kIql6Yy///*A5q+9!,A5"
> "9y///+m,YQ-my////-iq~y"[a++];for(;7&b;e("Eli!: 
> MV?JL1m\"P\n"[b-->>3]));}}
> 
> *!* I-News .930x8
>  * Origin: the-rapist is a poor choice of a name for the profession 
> (29:101/1.150)
> 
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