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From: boba@gagme.wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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Subject: Re: Talk: New Figlet Font
Date: 19 Jun 1994 14:12:35 -0500
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In article <2u00vs$dj4@search01.news.aol.com>,
Crythene <crythene@aol.com> wrote:
>boba@gagme.wwa.com (Bob Allison) writes:
>Scarecrow> Nice font.  It's interesting how this stuff gets copied 
>                  and modified along the way.
>(long history of font deleted to save space).
>
>Whereas I saw this font in one of Scarecrow's sigs and adapted it 
>for use in a BBS where I function as a host (a sort of a base-op). 
>We're all assigned greek letters, so I created a sigma out of it:
>
>         ...   ...  ......   ...... .........      .........
>         :::   ::: :::::::: ::::::: :::::::::      :::::::::
>         :::   ::+ ::+  ::: +::        +::          :+:: 
>         +:+   :+: +:+  :+: +:+        +:+           :+:+
>         :+::+:++: :+:  +:+ ++::++     +:+            +:++
>         +++++++++ +++  +++  ++++++    +++            ++++
>         +++   +#+ ++#  +++     +#+    #++           ++#+
>         #+#   +#+ #+#  +#+     +#+    #+#          #+#+
>         ##+   ### +#+#+##+ ##+####    ##+         +###+#++#
>         ###   ###  ######  ######     ###         #########

   In a previous post, I showed the bbs that I originally saw it on.  I 
wonder where it actually originated, who actually made the first one.  
Does anybody know?

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