Re: ascii characters
From Stuart Moore <stu...@bigfoot.com>
· alt.ascii-art
· 1 May 2001 13:18 · View full thread
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On Tue, 1 May 2001 07:55:18 -0400, "Bob" <rid...@ride.ri.net> enlightened us with: > Hello....This may not be the right group to post to, but I couldnt find any > other. Does anybody in this group also like doing things with the extended > character set? Like the little characters you can get when you press "alt" > and number combinations on the number pad. Like "alt 278" will give you a > small shaded box. I have used these to make some neat menu screen for DOS. I > was hoping to find people with similar interests to get some more ideas. > thankx Bob > > Problem is that these vary a bit more - e.g. between Dos and Windows (although you can get some windows fonts that do it the dos way). Possibly this could come under a more general topic "unicode art"? -- o |\ _[] L_ === Stuart Moore []\, stm
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