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From: rda654z@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Evan McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Nasty.com, changing the character fonts on a text mode screen
Summary: Query on how to do this or where is file?
Message-ID: <1991May31.015315.18704@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 31 May 91 01:53:15 GMT
Organization: Monash Uni. (Faculty of things_that_go_bump_in_the_night)
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Just recently I found a cute little program called "nasty.com" which I
downloaded from a local BBS.  What this program did was change all the
characters in the text mode screen so they looked like they had been scrawled
with a crayon or similar.  The program came with no documentation and gives no
output of it's own, it just changes the screen.

In doing a strings on the program I came up with two strings inside the
executable.  They were, "PC Magazine" and "Michael J. Mefford".  I've searched
the simtel archives for both a file names nasty*.* and in the PCMAG directory,
but with no luck.  I've also tried archie but still couldn't find it.

The Question:- Does anyone know how who wrote this program (Mr. Mefford I
assume) or alternatively, does anyone know how to do what this program does??

Thanks in advance

Evan McLean
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