toascii(6D)

toascii - use text characters to represent an image

Showing IRIX 6.5.30 (default release). Unchanged since IRIX 6.5.

NAME
     toascii - use text characters to represent an image

SYNOPSIS
     toascii inimage.bw

DESCRIPTION
     toascii prints textual characters that represent the black and white
     image used as input.  Output is sent to stdout.  In order to better view
     the results, it is recommended that the size of the black and white input
     image be somewhere in the range of 50 to 200 in x, and to use a wsh that
     is of a point size around 4 or 5 and an width of at least 120.