chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris) (10/01/89)
I have been looking at the posters in the MicroSoft Site, ux.acss.umn.edu and have some questions for the "keeper" of the poster collection. The only problem is that the person listed as the "keeper" (randy@ux.acss...) is not there any more or something. My mail bounced. Can somebody give me a lead on who the new person is, or who to contact ??? Also, I am looking for more sites with ASCII poster collections. I have found 2 so far. The one listed above, and plains.nodak.edu. ux.acss.... is an outstanding poster collection. plains... is good too. The only other ASCII stuff I know of is in Clarkson's /f/uploads directory in a file called PICTRTXT.ZIP (also good). If you know of other good ASCII poster sites, please let me know. My collection runneth over with bits and bytes !!! Or, if you have some new, odd, ASCII pic, send it on if you don't mind. Maybe a trade can be arranged. Thank You. Chris Behrens ChrisB@Hubcap.Clemson.Edu
silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman) (10/01/89)
Along these lines, can someone point me to a description of the format of these files and/or source for decoding, e.g. what do the different chars at the beginning of each line mean? +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Andy Silverman | Internet: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu | | "All stressed out and | Compu$erve: 72261,531 | | nobody to choke." | | +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------+
ctuel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Cliff Tuel) (10/03/89)
silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Andy Silverman) said... |Along these lines, can someone point me to a description of the format of |these files and/or source for decoding, e.g. what do the different chars |at the beginning of each line mean? It sounds like you're talking about the Fortran codes. These control line spacing and overprinting. Your system might have the "fpr" (Fortran print) command, or you might have an "lpr" option to handle these. If not, here is an explaination from the "fpr" man page: Character | Vertical Space Before Printing ---------------+-------------------------------- Blank | One line 0 | Two lines 1 | To first line of next page + | No advance A blank line is treated as if its first character is a blank. A blank that appears as a carriage control character is deleted. A zero is changed to a newline. A one is changed to a form feed. The effects of a "+" are simulated using backspaces. A program called "ffilter" was posted a while back by Bill Randle <billr@saab.cna.tek.com> to deal with these. He also wrote a program to print these files on a Postscript printer or view them on a Sun. If you need copies of these programs, drop me a note. -- ___________________________ ------------------------- _ . ___ -------------------------- ctuel@polyslo.CalPoly.edu (_ |_ l F F | (_) E |_ ucbvax!voder!polyslo!ctuel -------------------------___________________________--------------------------