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From: domel@alf.cc.uni.torun.pl (Tomasz Kepa)
Subject: Re: ANSI/ASCII----Difference?
Date: 1996/09/27
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Stephanie Struble (strubles@peak.org) wrote:
: Can someone explain to me the difference b/w these two? I see ASCII art,
: but a friend of mine referred to ANSI art. What's the diff?

Well, I'll try. ASCII art is an art done with standard characters, like
letters, numbers, some special chars like . , [ ] - _ etc.

ANSI art is an art done with:

1. more characters (128 - 255) - like e.g. some international ones, or shade
   marks when talking about PC;

or/and

2. couple of colors (4 or 8 usually). Very often the only character used is
   space (' ') with changed background color. More advanced color ANSI is 
   done using colors and shades.

or/and

3. control codes which allow to e.g. clear screen, move some lines  up or
   down. There are also some special codes used on Amiga only which allow to
   move 1 pixel (graphical pixel!) down which makes possible to make ANSIs
   which can look like normal pictures! 

The art that appears in most cases on this newsgroup is an ASCII art.

Hope this helps, 

Tomasz Kepa