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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 24 Sep 2001.
Re: Dead or alive...

Re: Dead or alive...

> For instance, this:
>
>   /
>  /
> /
>
> Looks crap in 80x25 bare-console.
>

Yeah, this works in DOS:

    /
  /
/

But in Windows, it looks stupid. Anyway, who can be stuffed copying it to
DOS? Are there DOS newsreaders? I doubt there are, so making DOS ASCII art
is
really just being a pain in the ass, and noone will look at your art.

Robert

--

 \____/
 /    \
| ,  , | This is a realy bad sig
|      | It doesn't look like a pig
|  /\  | This poem sucks
(  __ )) Because... (er... what rhymes with sucks?)
 \____/

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