X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,21c6feaf21b2462f X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Secoh Subject: Re: Req: working link to gifscii or similar (dos) Date: 1999/09/02 Message-ID: <37CE2692.6562EC35@all.please>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 520062824 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-through: WHIRLwind.plex.nl for unknown@isdn-1b35n.plex.nl (WHIRLwind.plex.nl!unknown@isdn-1b35n.plex.nl) References: <37CCE600.6DEC5AC@all.please> <37CD3E19.DCC150B3@student.canterbury.ac.nz> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@nl.uu.net X-Trace: zonnetje.nl.uu.net 936256881 14632 194.229.212.136 (2 Sep 1999 07:21:21 GMT) Organization: Messy Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Sep 1999 07:21:21 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Matthew Thomas wrote: > > Secoh wrote: > > > > As said. > > Yes, I read the faq, but no link seems to be active anymore. > > Yes, tried some search engines, only found a MAC version. > > That's my fault -- I'm the FAQ maintainer, but I've been a wee bit busy > over the past few months, er, the past year, so I haven't had time to > update it. >(I hardly even have time to post to a.a-a any more ... sigh.) Hah! So a newbie lured you in! Honestly, I'm quite impressed by any FAQ maintainer. It does take a lot of time. > following links to various converters. (And I've just checked all these > links, so they should work for you.) > > Bitmap 2 Ascii (for Windows): > http://members.tripod.com/bitmap2ascii/ Link ok, but invalid ZIPfile. > Email Effects (for Windows or MacOS): > http://www.sigsoftware.com/emaileffects/ Yep, up and running > GIFA (looks like this one's for DOS, but I can't tell for sure): > http://users.skynet.be/pascalbe/ascii.html For DOS, and working > Charac (for Windows 3.1): > http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/fumio/#Windows Working ok > Various ASCII art programs, including Gifscii (for MacOS): > http://home.sol.no/~ekveland/download/Ascii/ > > Er ... and that's about it. But if you do a Web search for gifscii.exe > you should find the DOS program *somewhere*. Well, this is already a lot more than needed! Thanks a lot. Now I feel obliged to work on my sig... I feel it needs some revision if I'd continue posting in this group ;) > >... > > \ THE MILLENNIUM STARTS IN 2001, DAMMIT!! / > > Damn straight. http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/mil2000.html. Ahh.. that will save me a lot of time explaining. Everyone with ten fingers should be able to figure it out but... Thanks, Matthew -- s c h /---------------------------------------------------\ | if you want to reply directly, send your message to | | secoh (at) biosys (dot) net | \---------------------------------------------------/