updating some scripts - fixes, mostly. conf_minify works WAY better now.

ref/ascii

@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 http://plato.asu.edu/MAT420/beginning_perl/3145_AppF.pdf
-http://www.profdavis.net/ASCII_table.pdf
+http://www.profdavis.net/ASCII_table.pdf
+http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/AsciiChart.jsp
+http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/ascii.html

ref/progress.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ def waiter(seconds = 1):
     max = len(anims) - 1
     global is_done
     print('Beginning dhparam gen...')
-    # This is just an example commant that takes a looong time.
+    # This is just an example command that takes a looong time.
     c = subprocess.Popen(['openssl', 'dhparam', '-out', '/tmp/dhpem', '4096'],
     #c = subprocess.Popen(['openssl', 'genrsa', '-out', '/tmp/dhpem', '4096'],
                          stdout = subprocess.PIPE,

ref/python.tips_tricks_and_dirty_hacks

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ ref: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#imports
 
 ###############################################################################
 
-To programmatically install modules via pip if they aren't installed:
+To programmatically install modules via pip if they aren't installed (BROKEN IN RECENT PIP VERSIONS; pip._internal.main() i think):
 
 ____
 import importlib
@@ -108,4 +108,13 @@ log = logger.log(name = 'project.name')
 ###############################################################################
 
 # TODO #
-https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10265193/python-can-a-class-act-like-a-module
+https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10265193/python-can-a-class-act-like-a-module
+
+
+###############################################################################
+
+To issue an equivalent of "reset" command in linux, assuming console is ANSI-compat,
+
+print('\x1bc', end = '')
+
+###############################################################################