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MacPaint <-----> Plain text file

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From: Chi-Chih Tao
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:41
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Hi.  A few years ago, I saw a small Macintosh program that could convert
a MacPaint picture into plain ASCII text file.  Say, if I input a MacPaint
file consisting of a flower, the output of that program looks something
like this:

                     .-~~-.--.
                    :         )
              .~ ~ -.\       /.- ~~ .
              >       `.   .'       <
             (         .- -.         )
              `- -.-~  `- -'  ~-.- -'
                (        :        )           _ _ .-:
                 ~--.    :    .--~        .-~  .-~  }
                   ~-.-^-.-~ \_      .~  .-~   .~
                              \ \'     \ '_ _ -~
                               `.`.    //
                      . - ~ ~-.__`.`-.//
                  .-~   . - ~  }~ ~ ~-.~-.
                .' .-~      .-~       :/~-.~-./:
               /_~_ _ . - ~                 ~-.~-._
                                                ~-.<

I think I saw this little public domain program in the M.I.T. Microcomputer
Center (in the basement of MIT student center).  The program should be 
registered with Boston Computer Scoiety.  But I do not remember the name
of this program.

So would anyone kindly tell me what's the name of this program, where may
I download it and where may I look for more info. about it?  Thanks a lot!

- Chi
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