Re: PROPOSAL: alt.ansi-art
From Colin Douthwaite <Col...@equinox.gen.nz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 21 Nov 1994 03:55 · View full thread
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Ryan Houle (tha...@primenet.com) wrote: : I propose a group for IBM extended ascii and ANSI control character related : art. There have been many requests on alt.ascii-art for extended and ansi : art. If any one would like to discuss this further, my address is : tha...@primenet.com To avoid causing problems at the many global Internet sites all postings containing Extended IBM Characters and ANSI characters and ANSI Control Codes need to be UUENCODED. Failure to observe this causes troubles as the material travels through the Internet routes. In effect postings containing these characters become BINARIES. This is why people go to the trouble of UUencoding & UUdecoding. This needs to be considered when any new newsgroup is being proposed. The existing newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.ascii could be used but of course this groups title makes no mention of ANSI. Is there a great difference between IBM Extensions of ASCII and ANSI when they are used in pictures ? Bye, To avoid causing problems at the many global Internet sites all postings containing Extended IBM Characters and ANSI characters and ANSI Control Codes need to be UUENCODED. Failure to observe this causes troubles as the material travels through the Internet routes. In effect postings containing these characters become BINARIES. This is why people go to the trouble of UUencoding & UUdecoding. This needs to be considered when any new newsgroup is being proposed for ANSI or IBM Extended ASCII. The existing newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.ascii could be used but of course this groups title makes no mention of ANSI. Is there any great difference between IBM Extensions of ASCII and ANSI when they are used in pictures ? Bye,
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