Re: DOS line drawing characters to GIF?

Sara Jane Pearman (mailto:pearman@CMA-OH.ORG)
Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:44:13 -0400

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Date:         Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:44:13 -0400
From: Sara Jane Pearman <mailto:pearman@CMA-OH.ORG>
Subject:      Re: DOS line drawing characters to GIF?
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

Do you ever use the alt key and then the ascii numbers - most programs,
even databases accept those.

Sara Jane

At 03:31 PM 7/7/98 -0400, you wrote: >I have a file created in a DOS program that uses the extended IBM ascii
>character set -- made up, here, of the line-drawing characters -- and need
>to translate these images into a standard graphics format.
>
>I can print the file in Postscript using LetterGothic, and scan it, but the
>slight mis-registration of lines makes for a rather messy output. I can't
>display any single image completely in the program that created it, so I
>can't grab the image using something like HiJaak DOSCap or HiJaak Capture,
>nor will it display correctly in any standard windows editor I own.
>
>Can anybody suggest a way of producing a standard output image file from
>this ascii file? An answer will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Robert A. Baron
mailto:>rabaron@pipeline.com >
>