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From: Shimrod <csg824@wing.rug.nl>
Subject: Re: Utilities, s/w for drawing ascii-art ?
Date: 1997/02/20
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Lindsay wrote:
> 
> For some time I've been on the lookout for a utility/program for an
> IBM-comp PC which would transform text using the keyboard characters
> without having to manually draw it.
> 
> i.e. By typing in LINZ, the program would automatically transform it
> along the lines of:
>     _      _   __    _   _____
>    | |    | | |  \  | | |___  |      (I know, not very brilliant,)
>    | |    | | | \ \ | |    / /       (but I hope you get the gist)
>    | |__  | | | |\ \| |  _/ /_       (I'm looking for something a)
>    |____| |_| |_| \___| |_____|      (little fancier   ;-)       )
> 
> I'm afraid I'm rather useless on the artistic front, (being amazed at
> many of the fascinating artworks from the contributors in this ng),
> and require such a utility/program for making kids posters etc. for my
> No.1 son and, of course, my own amusement.
> 
> Any pointers would be gratefully received.
> 
> Please post as you see fit (email or to the ng - I'll be following the
> group for a wee while).
> 
> TIA
> 
> LINZ
> Remove 'noUCEwanted' from address when replying.

Figlet is the program your looking for, it can convert text into all
sorts of fonts, I currently have 160 fonts. 

If you want to see what figlet does, point your browser to:

http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet

Or to the official FIGlet homepage by the makers of FIGlet:

http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html

This page shows what figlet does, and where you can get it, if the
connection to that site is slow, here's two other places you can get 
figlet:

ftp://ftp.north.de/pub/net/comp/binaries/ibm/pc/figlet.zip  132.3K
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/.d3/ibmpc/dos/apps/graphics/figlet/dosfiglt.zip
58.7K

These probably contain some but not all fonts
If you want all my fonts (160 !) I can send them to you in a 220 K 
zipfile, just send me a request:

mailto:csg824@wing.rug.nl

BTW: to anyone in this newsgroup: anyone can request these fonts from
me, I can't guaranty anything, earlier request could not be filled,
because I kept getting my mail back undelivered. Oh, and I'm going on 
holiday next week, so wait a bit with requests.
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