Re: some old helper tools for rotation

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:

> A few weeks ago I found these in an old backup of mine. There's four
> utilies, three of them using a compiled C heler tool and the fourth
> based on awk. Combined they provide a way to rotate ASCII art 90
> degrees, 180 degrees, 270 degrees, and to left-right flip an image.
>
> The left-right flip is by Jef Poskanzer ( www.acme.com ) and clearly
> licensed. The others are of ambitious origin and have no clear license.
> I suspect the authors would be 100% okay with my sharing this old code
> for the purpose of hobbyists to use non-commercially.
>
> Code distributed in the old-school shell archive format. You can extract
> by hand easily enough or use `sh` to do it automatically. There was no
> makefile when I got this, but "make asciitool" worked for me. My only
> changes to the code were to add the #include lines above the comment
> in the C file and add line breaks to the C file usage message.

Wow great find. Thanks for the post.

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Daniel
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