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From: luitje@m-net.arbornet.org (William Luitje)
Subject: Info: An easy way to generate large ASCII text
Date: 1995/09/01
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I have written a free PC program, BIGTEXT which might be of interest 
to ASCII artists and signature designers. It can be found in your 
local SimTel mirror (e.g. ftp.coast.net or oak.oakland.edu) in the 
file 

SimTel/msdos/textutil/bigtxt21.zip

What it does is take text you supply and draw it using ASCII (or PC 
graphics) characters.  For example, the command "bigtext /c# Sample" 
would produce: 

 #####                           ###           
##   ##                           ##           
###       ###   ##  ##  ## ###    ##     ####  
  ###       ##  #######  ##  ##   ##    ##  ## 
    ###  #####  ## # ##  ##  ##   ##    ###### 
##   ## ##  ##  ##   ##  #####    ##    ##     
 #####   ### ## ##   ##  ##       ###    ##### 
                        ###                    

This was done using the default font but any E/VGA ROM or screen font 
can be used and there are hundreds of those, including many non-Roman 
alphabets.  BIGTEXT also supports banner style (vertical) output and 
magnification as well as a number of effects which require PC graphics 
characters or output to a PC screen.  Of course, the output can be 
easily redirected to a file. 

Any questions or comments should be sent to me via e-mail since I 
don't ordinarily read this newsgroup. 

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