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- From: sychen@ecn.purdue.edu (Shi Y Chen)
- Subject: PIXCH020.ZIP - WIN3: Bitmap to ASCII conv. (VBRUN200.DLL req)
- Message-ID: <9301120507.kp3610@tacom-emh1.army.mil>
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- Originator: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil
- Sender: msdos-ann-request@tacom-emh1.army.mil
- Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:07:57 GMT
- Approved: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil
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- I have uploaded to WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil:
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- pd1:<msdos.windows3>
- PIXCH020.ZIP WIN3: Bitmap to ASCII conv. (VBRUN200.DLL req)
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- Pixel Characterizer version 0.20 was written by Visual Basic 2.0. The
- purpose of the program is to map each pixel of a small bitmap picture to
- a character. This turns any bitmap pictures into ASCII texts. And
- pretty pictures/icons/signatures can be put in your regular text files.
- The color-to-character mapping is configurable to obtain good ASCII
- pictures. This update implements customized 4-depth color-to-character
- mapping scheme.
-
- e.g. A Bitmap picture is shown as (a real bitmap can't be shown here,
- I use characters instead.): ^v^
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- Use Pixel Characterizer to convert it to:
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- Sy Chen (sychen@gn.ecn.purdue.edu)
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