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- NAME
-
- cursive - print text in cursive script (07/24/85, PC-DOS 12/29/91)
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- cursive [-i n] [-t n] [message] [>file]
- [>>file]
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- Cursive prints a line of text in a rather crude cursive script.
- It is intended for use mainly for the generation of decorative
- signatures for electronic mail. If message text is given on the
- command line, that text is used. Otherwise the text will be read
- from standard input up to an end of file. The -i option sets the
- minimum spacing between adjacent characters. The default is
- -i1. The -t option sets the length of the trailing lines on the
- end of each word. The default is -t1.
-
- The '_' character is treated in a special way. It may be
- inserted in the text anywhere you wish to lengthen a connecting
- line between two letters.
-
- The ">file" argument uses standard output redirection to create
- or overwrite the file with name "file". The ">>file" argument
- appends standard output to the file with name "file". These
- are mutually exclusive. To see the message on your display,
- don't include either of these arguments.
-
- BUGS
-
- Many ASCII characters are not defined, notably the numbers and
- symbols. Punctuation is mostly available. Some characters are
- rather ugly. The author has lousy handwriting.
-
- AUTHOR
-
- Jan Wolter. UUCP mail to janc@crim.eecs.umich.edu
-
- COPYRIGHT
-
- This program and the cursive font it generates are copyrighted by
- Jan Wolter. Both may be freely used and distributed in any way
- whatsoever, so long as the author's name is left in the source
- code and documentation.
-
- PC-DOS NOTES
-
- Ported to the PC by Dan Johnson. Said porting consisted of
- nothing more than compiling CURSIVE.C and CURSFONT.C with
- Microsoft C version 5.1 and linking the two object files, i.e.:
-
- cl cursive.c cursfont.c
-
- No changes were necessary to get the program working under MS-DOS
- (3.30).
-
- To create or overwrite a file containing your message, use ">"
- file redirection e.g.:
-
- cursive Hello world! >newfile.txt
-
- To append your message to an existing file, use ">>" e.g.:
-
- cursive Hello world! >>newfile.txt
-
- An older version of this program may be found on some BBSes.
- This CURSIVE.ZIP file contains files dated 11/25/87. The old
- version apparently does not separate output words with whitespace;
- this version does.