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. . http://members.aol.com/lester5374/index.htm - Ansi home page FTP://members.aol.com/lester5374/ansi - To download the ANSI format
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