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From: djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ascii pix
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Date: 14 Nov 90 19:43:24 GMT
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In article <10065@helios.TAMU.EDU> n350bq@tamuts.tamu.edu (Duane Fields) writes:
>Anyone heard of a program to take an IFF (or gif) and convert it to an 
>"ascii picture" composed of ascii characters??? I hear they exist, where
>can I get me one!!!
> 
>Duane

I remember a program on an early Fish Disk that would attempt to reproduce
IFF pictures in character graphics, particularly for use on daisy wheels. I
toyed with it a bit, but not much luck getting it to work. Might be worth
looking into again.

If you want to go the other way, Inset's Hijaak for the PC will actually
take text screen dumps (2K) and convert them into the GRAPHIC format of
your choice! (including ILBM's). Neat program.
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