X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5c513960de185043 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,17229c713daec0bb X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-Thread: 110f55,5c513960de185043 X-Google-Attributes: gid110f55,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-01 22:15:49 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: rtucker@worf.infonet.net (Ryan Tucker) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Subject: Talk: Dvorak, domain name Followup-To: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Date: 1 Oct 1994 23:55:03 -0500 Organization: HoopyWeb Art Department Lines: 32 Sender: boba@wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <36lef7$373@sashimi.wwa.com> References: <367pbd$897@gagme.wwa.com> <36i2f5$m1f@gagme.wwa.com> <36i3lc$mqt@gagme.wwa.com> <36k88a$4op@sashimi.wwa.com> <36k9jj$rl5@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sashimi.wwa.com Xref: bga.com rec.arts.ascii:1869 alt.ascii-art:12531 alt.binaries.pictures.ascii:1240 Bob Allison (boba@wwa.com) wrote: > Ryan Tucker wrote: > >Does a Dvorak layout help ASCII art creation? I use the standard QWERTY > >keyboard on all computers I work on. While I've never seen a Dvorak > >keyboard, what advantages do they have to the ASCII artist? > I use a Dvorak layout for actual typing because it is faster and > requires less effort to type than QWERTY. OWERTY was scienfically designed > to make typing difficult in the age of manual typewriters when typist > were too fast for them and jammed them a lot. QWERTY still has its uses... my computer jams alot too :-) [...] > I will probably use boba.com. Should take about a month to get it, > and a couple more weeks to set up the automation (providing my guru is > available at that time). Aww, I liked scarecrow.com :-) What platform are you doing the automation on? Unix, for example, would be much easier than DOS for that sort of thing. -- Ryan Tucker rtucker@worf.infonet.net Des Moines, Iowa rtucker@ins.infonet.net http://www.infonet.net/showcase/rtucker -=- "Netiquette" is the ability to travel the Internet without sticking your nodes up at everyone else. --- Usenet Oracle