OVERVIEW

This directory contains ASCII and text-mode artwork produced,
recovered, collected, or otherwise dragged into the Snakepit.

Potential contents include:

  > LOGOS
  > BANNERS
  > TERMINAL ART
  > SIGNATURES
  > OLD BBS MATERIAL
  > RECOVERED TEXT FILES
  > THINGS THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE NEEDED PNG

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CURRENT INDEX

[TXT]  README.txt
       Archive notes.

[TXT]  No public artifacts indexed yet.

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root@snakepit:~/archive# file ./ascii/*

README.txt: ASCII text

root@snakepit:~/archive# identify ./ascii/*

identify: command not found

root@snakepit:~/archive# echo $REASON

THEY'RE TEXT FILES.

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ARCHIVAL RULES

  [01] PRESERVE ORIGINAL SPACING.

  [02] PRESERVE ORIGINAL LINE BREAKS.

  [03] PRESERVE ORIGINAL FILENAMES WHEN PRACTICAL.

  [04] DO NOT "FIX" ARTIFACTS WITHOUT DOCUMENTING THE CHANGE.

  [05] RAW FILES SHOULD REMAIN RAW.

  [06] IF IT LOOKS WRONG IN A PROPORTIONAL FONT,
       THAT IS YOUR PROBLEM.

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root@snakepit:~/archive# cat ./ascii/README.txt

ASCII ARCHIVE

Some files in this directory may be newer works.

Others may have been recovered from older media.

Where provenance is known, it will be documented.

Where provenance is unknown, we will say:

UNKNOWN.

This is preferable to making shit up.

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DISPLAY TEST

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| SNAKEPIT INDUSTRIES      |
| ASCII SUBSYSTEM          |
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| STATUS: FUNCTIONAL       |
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If the box above looks terrible:

Congratulations.

Your font has failed a test invented decades ago.

root@snakepit:~/archive# wc -c philosophy.txt

2 philosophy.txt

root@snakepit:~/archive# cat philosophy.txt

:)

root@snakepit:~/archive# _

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root@snakepit:~/archive#