mike marchywka sent the following at Monday, May 10, 2010 10:09 AM >Just personally I LIKE the ASCII art hippo. It demonstrates an ability >to use primitive and CONCISE represntations for information - captures >the essence without the extraneous junk. Today we are seeing lots of >bloated things cause disruptions- bw wasting apps killed ATT with >iPhone for example- and trying to do anything with windoze always seems >to stick you with waste that actually makes automation harder- like >replacing ssh with remote desktop. > >If pointing could replace a tractable alphabet and elaborate cave >drawings could replace equations and computer code I may agree with you >but you don't want to obscure the raison d'etre of the site. How much >ASCII art do you see these days?
Personally, I generally agree. Extrapolating from myself*, a lot of people who use cygwin like the command line. And ASCII is evocative of the command line. (I have .bashrc flash a colorized version of the hippo when I load a primary shell.) I also like the "prompt" icon <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-icon.gif>. * :-) - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple