ASCII ART Incompatible with IRC?

In article <344...@hotmail.com>, Melissa BEE
<hun...@hotmail.com> writes:

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I don't know much about mIRC... you might do better in an IRC newsgroup...
But I do recognize the bees.  I made them.  To find them with signatures
intact, as well as finding more bees, visit:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/insects.htm
-joan
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In article <344...@hotmail.com>, Melissa BEE
<hun...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> I was wondering if anyone could offer some _useful_ advice.
> 
> Heres the dilemma - sorry it�s a bit of a story.
> I am only relatively new to computers and in my 40s (not that that�s an
> excuse, I think I�m more playful and take more risks than my kids) I am
> not technically nor mathematically minded and tend to do most things by
> trial and error - rather than trying to memorize  long complicated
> instructions, which is not my bag at *all*.  Ok, I�m getting to it...
> in about May this year, I discovered IRC (Internet Relay Chat)  and
> discovered what they call �popups� and are often alias files. These
> simply are pictures - coloured pictures. A lot of this �artwork� I was
> told is ASCII ART. I have fiddled around with it and created some of my
> own designs. The numbers are for the colours. I operate a number of
> channels and we are in the process of setting up a joke channel, but I
> came back to the SAME problem I had once before.
> 
> This problem is - when I have loaded �popups� or ASCII Art from a NG -
> (into my files or into a word or notepad document  IN THE SAME FONT) its
> fine - no problem. It looks the same. When I paste it into my alias or
> pop file and then try to �play it� in channel ------ all the spaces
> shift and I end  with a mangled mess!!!   My bee4 looks like a limp
> noodle - goroan!  (these are how they are shifted) See bee3 and bee4
> 
> I have tried repeatedly to fix it and �stop the spaces from shifting� to
> no avail. Other than putting in a row of (hidden - uncoloured) dots - to
> �fix� the spaces, the damn popup shifts.  About 3 weeks ago in aus.jokes
> (and all the associated crossposted groups) I asked how to fix this
> problem. I was bombarded with mail and posts - some of which suggested I
> needed some sort of program to fix the SHIFT - which I could never
> connect to on my server, to paste only to notepad, to download Netscape
> Communicator, (because Netscape Gold - didn�t have the right settings)
> to only used fixed-font (Usually Courier) blah blah blah --- none of
> which has anything to do with anything - I don�t use Netscape when I�m
> on IRC!  One of the suggestions was that I post here. I wasn�t aware the
> pops were also ASCII Art - so the thought of asking here had not
> occurred to me.  So now I _am_ asking. Heeeeeeeeeeeelp!!!
> 
> That�s the IRC problem.
> 
> Now the bee problem.  My name is Melissa BEE and Melissa means honey-bee
> in Greek - so naturally I use the nick HunnyBee and use a lot of honey &
> bee related things.  Since February I have combed the net and have found
> NO - yes NO decent pictures (photos or cartoons - I don't want drawings
> & I wanted colour pix) of bees. I had to cut a picture off a biscuit
> packet and scan it just to get a decent pic for my desk-top.  As for
> ASCII BEES - I have found them near impossible to find.  The first two
> (below) I had help making --- WITH IRC THE STUFF NEEDS TO BE SMALL and
> three lines is ideal (without flooding in some channels) [] ones an
> entrance and the other an exit bee.  The difficulty with a lot of IRC
> art is you can�t �see� what it looks like until you �play� it.
> 
> I have given up trying to find or make a BEE for a signature file.
> Unless I can find the time to try and learn how to do ASCII art, or
> unless someone can direct me to a graphics site that has BEES.
> 
> Thanks, any advice will be appreciated.
> Melissa BEE
> (hun...@hotmail.com)

Your nickname is too large. Try shortening your name to Hbee and play
the files again. My husband used to play a lot in mIRC and he had to
shorten his nickname from a nineletter one to a fourletter one. That's
not to say that you have to change the "HunnyBee just buzzed in!!" You
just have to shorten it for the files.

In order to look at your things without disturbing anyone, create a
channel just for yourself (/join #hbeetest) and you can play files
undisturbed because it's likely that you will be the only one there.

Have you seen the bee at:

http://www.bearweb.com/beeriddle/images/bee.gif

? It's maybe not exactly what you want because it's caught in a web but
it is a nice looking bee.

And here is another gif of a bee but I don't know if it is a honey bee.

http://www.studentpubs.runet.edu/beehive/bzz1.gif



Here is a not so good ascii-bee that I just quickly did:

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