"ASCII  art" is a term of art.

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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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I'm sure he meant "character art". 3270DS are not ASCII.

In 1970 my sister signed up for a programming class in high school. My dad
was intrigued, since he was writing code on OS/360 and teaching computing.

He was furious when it turned out that their assignments comprised creating
character art. I forget what happened but I think she transferred out of
the class.

On June 18, 2026 7:51:53 PM Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:30:08 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
>> My TSMBIRD was ASCII art on a 3277; is your ILRBIRD fancier?
>>
> ASCII ?  3277?
> It's easier to believe EBCDIC character cell.
> Or do 3277 data streams support ASCII?
>
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> gil
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