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- This is the DOS port of figlet version 2.1.1, a neat hack by Ian
- Chai and Glenn Chappell to produce impressive looking lettering
- easily. For example, it took me only a couple of seconds to make
- the title for this file. The complete directions are in the file
- FIGLET.MAN so this README will only address issues relating to
- the MS-DOS port of the program.
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- │▒▒▒ MS-DOS Specificities ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒│
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- The end of file signal in MS-DOS is ^Z (control-Z). When you are
- typing input for figlet from the console, just type ^Z and ENTER
- to finish.
-
- The default location for figlet fonts is C:\FIGLET\FONTS but this
- can be overridden by the -d switch.
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- │▒▒▒ Displaying Fonts ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒│
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- I have written a couple of batch files, SHOWALL.BAT and
- SHOWONE.BAT to help you choose which font to use for your text.
- Just put the text you want to use in a file named TEST.TXT and
- then type SHOWALL. The batch file will then cycle through all of
- the figlet fonts in the current directory displaying the contents
- of TEST.TXT in that font and then pausing so that you can look at
- it. It would be easy for you to modify the batch files so that
- the output is redirected to a printer or to add switches to
- control figlet features.
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- The "official" home of figlet sources, executables for many
- platforms and fonts is
-
- ftp://ftp.nicoh.com/pub/figlet
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- Look there for any updates to the program. The best collection
- of figlet fonts (well over 100) I have seen is in the ASCII art
- archive maintained by the ScareCrow. You can find the figlet
- stuff in
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- ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/ScareCrow/Figlet
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- │▒▒▒ Acknowledgements ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒│
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- All of the kudos for this program should go to Glenn Chappell and
- Ian Chai; I just did a rather simple port to the MS-DOS
- environment and added the DOS batch files. You should send your
- thanks, inquiries and bug reports to
-
- figlet@uiuc.edu
-
- If you like interesting text effects you may also be interested
- in one of my programs, BIGTEXT. It uses screen fonts to produce
- big characters and banners and there are hundreds of screen fonts
- available including many non-roman character sets. Here is a
- sample:
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- See the file ALSO_BY.WVL for details on BIGTEXT and my other
- freeware packages.
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- William Luitje
- 7 September 1995
- luitje@m-net.arbornet.org
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