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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 9 Jun 1998.
Re: [pic] Font

Re: [pic] Font

>I've recently studied the FIGLet source code quite thoroughly, with
>the intention of some day (if I ever find the time) doing a rather
>major rewrite with customizable smushmodes, restructuring to make
>adding GUI code easier, and so on. This means I just may be able to
>shed some light on the matter.
>
>The max line length is in fact one of the parts of the code that
>rather boggled me. It's an artifact of the way FIGLet reads the file,
>loading each line into a buffer of a set size. If you have lines
>longer than that, weird things may happen, so you are instructed to
>add a "fudge factor" to the length.
>
>The odd part is, FIGLet doesn't trust you, but adds 100 to the length
>just to be sure. :) Not that you should rely on that, though, as
>other programs such as FIGwin may or may not do it. Still, to me
>there's something deeply ironic in the whole thing..

Thank you very much.
.
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