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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 20 Apr 1994.
TALK: ascii to gif (Re: GIF to ASCII)

TALK: ascii to gif (Re: GIF to ASCII)

Matthew Koglin:
>Why would you want to convert an ASCII to a GIF?  Not only would it take much
>more memory, but it would still look just as crappy (not saying that ASCII's
>are crappy), but WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Oh, maybe you have an ascii pic that looks particularly nifty with the
font and colors you have, and you want to show everyone how great it
looks.  So you bring it up in a window, capture the pixmap, and
convert it to a gif.  (xwd | xbmtopnm | ppmtogif)

You know, I think I just figured out what alt.binaries.pictures.ascii
is *really* supposed to be used for.
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From: fle...@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: TALK: ascii to gif (Re: GIF to ASCII)
Date: 20 Apr 1994 18:39:26 GMT
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