[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Font for PC graphics characters



You wrote:

> which font is capable of showing the PC graphics characters (ie
> ascii art)?

> Strange, I can't find such info in google, maybe I didn't use 
> the right keywords...

I think that the keyword you want is ansi art, not ascii art.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art

This used ANSI.SYS in ms-dos.

There are, of course, ways of imitating this in an xterm. But the
easiest is to display such pictures in an MS-DOS environment (i.e.
dosemu).

Regards, Jan



Reply to: