X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1a7eb6f8ef6a606c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: obscure@unknown.origin (Vapor) Subject: Re: Help with Figlet 2.1 Date: 1996/07/27 Message-ID: <31fa85b3.53516668@news>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 170482656 references: <31f9c9c0.5596418@news> organization: Ain't Got A Clue Inc. newsgroups: alt.ascii-art On 27 Jul 1996 06:08:01 -0700, dcrosby@primenet.com (DCrosby) wrote: >In article <31f9c9c0.5596418@news> obscure@unknown.origin (Vapor) writes: >>From: obscure@unknown.origin (Vapor) >>Subject: Help with Figlet 2.1 >>Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 07:53:32 GMT > >>Hi >>I just downloaded figlet 2.1 and bout 200 figlet fonts >>and I'm some what lost as to how to use it. I figured >>out how to do most everything but save the output. >>I can get it to write in any of the fonts but I don't >>know what to do with it to save it to file. This is >>probably a simple Dos task that I'm to dumb to figure out. >>I got Windows down real well, but Only a little Dos. >>Can anyone tell me how to save the output in figlet 2.1? >> > > >To get output from Figlet (or anything from the command line, such >as DIR, etc.), use >filename.ext at the end of the line. If you >want to append an existing file, use two greater-than symbols, >>>filename.txt. If you use just one ">", it will overwrite an >existing file, so be careful here. > >Another trick is that if you want to use the text from an existing >file to turn into Figlet text, use "<". So you'd have something >that looks like this: > >FIGLET [options] OUTFILE.TXT > >I hope this helps. > >___ ____ ____ ____ ____ ___ _ _ >| \ | |__/ | | [__ |__] \_/ >|__/ |___ | \ |__| ___] |__] | >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >dcrosby@primenet.com > It worked like a charm. Here's my first test. _____ _____ _____ , () ||) _, |) , () |_ _ ,_ () ||) _ /| | _ |\ ||/\ / | /|/| |/) / \_ /| |/ \_/ | ||/\ |/ |--| |/ |/ |/\_ (/ | |/\/|_/ | |_/| \/ \/ (/ \_/ |/ (/ | |/|_/ | |)|_/|_/|_/ (|