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From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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A tabloid said that Eli McInnis <014059m@dragon.acadiau.ca> wrote:
>
>I think having the description of the contents of the message is a great
>idea...  have I done it properly?

   It's good enough.  While I was the one who pushed their usage in these
groups, I still find them slightly annoying, and better to have them than
not to have them.

>Down to business..I have a few questions..
>
>I liked those winnie the pooh pics  (they're right up there with the
>sandman.death pics I saw earlier) ... I was wondering how you got them to
>come out so good... did you create them manually?   That seems like a LONG
>time to create them if you did ... so I assume that you must have used a
>GIF to ASCII converter ... but normally when those converters create a
>picture, there's a horible background distracting from the picture and the
>shots don't come out so clrearly defined (it almost gives the impresion of
>color) ....  did you modify them afterwards or is there a way to get the
>converter to actually produce results that well..

   You should try to use or modify an original so that it has a clean
background.  Also, modifying a pic after conversion is usually always
helpful.  See one of the versions of the FAQ for info on making better
conversions.

>I'm asking these questions a little prematurely,  since I don't have a
>converter yet... this leads me to another question....
>
>I know where I can find converters (ftps sights) from reading through an
>FAQ (or maybe it was just a message somewhere) .... and I picked up a few
>for DOS.... but I can't get them to run ... the one that came the closest
>to running gave me a message saying that it needs go32.exe (or something
>like that) ....  Can any dos users that are sucessfully using a GIF to
>ASCII converter please let me know which one they are using, what I have
>to do to get it to run (if anything special needs to be done), and where
>to find it?

   Could somebody email me a copy (or put it in my incoming FTP folder)
of the go32.exe so I can put it in the Gifscii folder here at ftp.wwa.com.

   Thanks a lot.

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