* Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen / gmail.com> [1237 12:37]:
> Michael Neumann <mneumann / ntecs.de> writes:
> 
> > CT wrote:
> >>>On Friday 24 December 2004 08:21 am, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
> >>>| Well, what more is there to say? :-)
> >> *damn*, how'd you do that?!
> >
> > Pretty easy (except drawing the tree :). Write the source-code first,
> > then base64 encode it, and insert newlines/whitespace to make the
> > picture.
> 
> That's about how I did it.  Except not manually, of course. :-)
> 
> # mkxmas.rb

Now *that's* cool - always wondered how you fellas did these....
 
> template = <<EOF
> s="*****************************************
> ********************************************
> ****      *       *       *       *     ****                                
> ****  *       *      **       *       * ****
> ****      *       * ****  *       *     ****
> ****  *       *    ******     *       * ****
> ****      *       ********        *     ****

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