I have figlet2.1.1 for DOS

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I made the figlet 2.1.1 DOS executable in less than 15 minutes.
I never thought it'd be this easy. <G>  Extra kudos to Glenn
Chappell and Co. for easily-ported code that even C newbies such
as myself can compile!

I compiled it under BCC 3.1, in the large memory model, linking with the GNU 
getopt.c file.  It should run on the 286's with minimal memory; I need some 
feedback on this.  I don't know about the 8086's -- all I know about 8086's 
is that I want more than 64k of space to work in.  When I compile in the tiny
model, I get a "no stack" warning.  The executable seems to work fine.  
Maybe there should be a FIGLET.EXE and a FIG8086.EXE.  Or maybe the tiny 
memory model (64K for data and code together) would be plenty of space for 
the program.

             Any comments?  Technical advice?  Flames?

Yet another technical note:  I didn't implement the -t (terminal) option, as 
I didn't want to mess with the oft-tempermental ioctl() function.  If I read 
the pre-troff man file inside the .tar file correctly, this is easily 
circumvented using the -w (outputwidth)option or the figlist (GOFIGLET.EXE 
in DOS) program.

             Any comments?  Technical advice?  Flames?

The biggest problem I had was extracting the file from the .tar
archive.  I was able to tell where the "figlet.c" file started
and stopped, but not so with the control, man, or font files.
Can anyone re-tar it with a DOS-compatable directory name (i.e.
8.3 filename syntax, not "figlet2.1.1") and e-mail it to me
(1sp...@uvsc.edu)?

*** A DOS-able compressed file (e.g. .ZIP, .LZH, .ARJ, etc.) ***
***         might earn you cookies via snail-mail!!!         ***

I won't post this file, though it's short (the uue is only ~300 lines), but 
there's the possibility of a virus on my system.  If you absolutely want it 
(with no guarantees), please e-mail me.

p.s.  Now that I remember, I did need to make one mod.  I had to change the 
directive #include <sys/ioctl.h> to #include <io.h>  This is in reference to 
a system-dependent function that is bypassed with compile-time directives, 
but Borland wouldn't compile until I changed that line.  Go figure.
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