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no-one will complain if your signature file is four lines long or
fewer -- and it is quite possible to draw good ASCII pictures which
are that small. Some examples are at:

□ http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/~kenter/sigs.html
□ http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/sigs.htm.

Some e-mail programs don't allow you to have a signature file which is
longer than four lines, while others just complain. Five or six lines
is usually acceptable, but any longer, and you're starting to take the
risk that your signature will be longer than some of your e-mail
messages; this wouldn't really make sense on paper, so it isn't really
acceptable in cyberspace either. The exception is in messages posted
to alt.ascii-art itself -- we're used to seeing long sigs, so we won't
complain.

But no matter what the length of your signature, make sure it's fewer
than 72 characters wide, otherwise it may end up a horrible mess --
see Question 6.


12. Where can I find more ASCII art?

Lots of ASCII artists put up libraries of their own and others' ASCII
art on their Web sites,
as well as tutorials on how to draw ASCII art. Allen Mullen has links
to many of these sites at
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/2695/links.htm.
Yahoo also has a page dedicated to ASCII art, at http://www.yahoo.com/
Arts/Visual_Arts/Computer_Generated/ASCII_Art/.
And try Joan Stark's Web site: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/.

To find out how to animate ASCII art using JavaScript, see
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/4942/faq_hta.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/animlesson.htm.

THE END

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This document may be freely copied as long as Matthew Thomas is identified
as the original author.


-------------------THE ASCII ART FAQ TEN COMMANDMENTS-------------------

\\\\`///
/ _ _\| 1. Thou shalt read the FAQ.
(\'('\/') 2. Thou shalt not remove the
______/( >(__ initials from any ASCII art.
/`- \ \_=__\| `\ 3. Thou shalt not claim ownership
/ /__( _____\ _____ of someone else's ASCII art.
/_ \.____ ," "." ",__ 4. Thou shalt read the FAQ.
\| / _\__/_ - / \ 5. Thou shalt ask permission
\/ /____ \ASCII ART FAQ /// before using someone else's
) / / \__\ - \| ASCII art.
'-.__\|_/ ///\| I VI \| 6. Thou shalt not sell someone
\_ \| \| \| else's ASCII art.
\| \| II VII \| 7. Thou shalt read the darn FAQ.
\ \| \| \| 8. Thou shalt not post post someone
/ \| III VIII \| else's ASCII art without making
\ \| \| \| clear that you didn't make it.
\_ \| IV IX \| 9. Thou shalt not assume that
\\| \| \| ASCII art isn't art at all.
\| V X \| 10. Thou shalt read the FAQing FAQ.
\|______b'ger______\|

-----------[Joris Bellenger, Colin Douthwaite, Matthew Thomas]----------
File: academy/history/centsign.txt
http://www.charlieanderson.com/centsign.htm

When I was a boy, not so long ago, there was a thing called the cent sign. It
looked like this: ¢

It was the dollar sign's little brother, and lived on comic books covers and in
newspaper advertisements and on pay phones and wherever anything was being sold
for less than a buck. It was a popular punctuation symbol—no question mark, or
dollar sign, certainly, but just behind the * in popularity, and I daresay well
ahead of #, &, and the now Internet-hot @. It owned an unshifted spot on the
typewriter keyboard, just to the right of the semicolon, and was part of every
third grader's working knowledge.

In the late 1990s, you don't see many cent signs. Why? Because hardly
anything costs less than a dollar anymore? Actually, the demise of the cent
sign has little to do with inflation, and everything to do with computers. And
therein lies a tale.

In the 1960s a disparate group of American computer manufacturers (basically,
everyone but IBM) got together and agreed on an encoding standard that became
known as ASCII ("ass-key"—The American Standard Code for Information
Interchange). This standard simply assigned a number to each of the various
symbols used in written communication (e.g., A-Z, a-z, 0-9, period, comma). A
standard made it possible for a Fortran program written for a Univac machine to
make sense to a programmer (and a Fortran compiler) on a Control Data computer.
And for a Teletype terminal to work with a Digital computer, and so on.

So-called text files, still in widespread use today, consist of sequences of
these numbers (or codes) to represent letters, spaces, and end-of-lines. Text
editors, for example, the Windows Notepad application, display ASCII codes as
lines of text on your screen so that you can read and edit them. Similarly, an
ASCII keyboard spits out the value 65 when you type a capital 'A,' 65 being the

no-one will complain if your signature file is four lines long or

fewer -- and it is quite possible to draw good ASCII pictures which

are that small. Some examples are at:

□ http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/~kenter/sigs.html

□ http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/sigs.htm.

Some e-mail programs don't allow you to have a signature file which is

longer than four lines, while others just complain. Five or six lines

is usually acceptable, but any longer, and you're starting to take the

risk that your signature will be longer than some of your e-mail

messages; this wouldn't really make sense on paper, so it isn't really

acceptable in cyberspace either. The exception is in messages posted

to alt.ascii-art itself -- we're used to seeing long sigs, so we won't

complain.

But no matter what the length of your signature, make sure it's fewer

than 72 characters wide, otherwise it may end up a horrible mess --

see Question 6.

12. Where can I find more ASCII art?

Lots of ASCII artists put up libraries of their own and others' ASCII

art on their Web sites,

as well as tutorials on how to draw ASCII art. Allen Mullen has links

to many of these sites at

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/2695/links.htm.

Yahoo also has a page dedicated to ASCII art, at http://www.yahoo.com/

Arts/Visual_Arts/Computer_Generated/ASCII_Art/.

And try Joan Stark's Web site: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/.

To find out how to animate ASCII art using JavaScript, see

http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/4942/faq_hta.htm

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/animlesson.htm.

THE END

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

This document may be freely copied as long as Matthew Thomas is identified

as the original author.

-------------------THE ASCII ART FAQ TEN COMMANDMENTS-------------------

\\\\`///

/ _ _| 1. Thou shalt read the FAQ.

(\'('\/') 2. Thou shalt not remove the

______/( >(__ initials from any ASCII art.

/`- \ \_=__| `\ 3. Thou shalt not claim ownership

/ /__( _____\ _____ of someone else's ASCII art.

/_ \.____ ," "." ",__ 4. Thou shalt read the FAQ.

| / _\__/_ - / \ 5. Thou shalt ask permission

\/ /____ \ASCII ART FAQ /// before using someone else's

) / / \__\ - | ASCII art.

'-.__|_/ ///| I VI | 6. Thou shalt not sell someone

\_ | | | else's ASCII art.

| | II VII | 7. Thou shalt read the darn FAQ.

\ | | | 8. Thou shalt not post post someone

/ | III VIII | else's ASCII art without making

\ | | | clear that you didn't make it.

\_ | IV IX | 9. Thou shalt not assume that

\| | | ASCII art isn't art at all.

| V X | 10. Thou shalt read the FAQing FAQ.

|______b'ger______|

-----------[Joris Bellenger, Colin Douthwaite, Matthew Thomas]----------

File: academy/history/centsign.txt

http://www.charlieanderson.com/centsign.htm

When I was a boy, not so long ago, there was a thing called the cent sign. It

looked like this: ¢

It was the dollar sign's little brother, and lived on comic books covers and in

newspaper advertisements and on pay phones and wherever anything was being sold

for less than a buck. It was a popular punctuation symbol—no question mark, or

dollar sign, certainly, but just behind the * in popularity, and I daresay well

ahead of #, &, and the now Internet-hot @. It owned an unshifted spot on the

typewriter keyboard, just to the right of the semicolon, and was part of every

third grader's working knowledge.

In the late 1990s, you don't see many cent signs. Why? Because hardly

anything costs less than a dollar anymore? Actually, the demise of the cent

sign has little to do with inflation, and everything to do with computers. And

therein lies a tale.

In the 1960s a disparate group of American computer manufacturers (basically,

everyone but IBM) got together and agreed on an encoding standard that became

known as ASCII ("ass-key"—The American Standard Code for Information

Interchange). This standard simply assigned a number to each of the various

symbols used in written communication (e.g., A-Z, a-z, 0-9, period, comma). A

standard made it possible for a Fortran program written for a Univac machine to

make sense to a programmer (and a Fortran compiler) on a Control Data computer.

And for a Teletype terminal to work with a Digital computer, and so on.

So-called text files, still in widespread use today, consist of sequences of

these numbers (or codes) to represent letters, spaces, and end-of-lines. Text

editors, for example, the Windows Notepad application, display ASCII codes as

lines of text on your screen so that you can read and edit them. Similarly, an

ASCII keyboard spits out the value 65 when you type a capital 'A,' 65 being the