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Original Usenet message from rec.arts.ascii, 12 Aug 1994.
Talk: Figlet fonts

Talk: Figlet fonts

In article <32dlbr$gp...@gagme.wwa.com>, m...@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin
Junius) writes:

> The .flf's from the author's posting were MSDOS text files with CR/LF
> end of lines, resulting in the additional `@'. To use them on a UNIX
> system, the CRs must be stripped.
>
> Martin

  So what should I do when I make future Figlet fonts?  Use the CR/LFs and
say that it is specifically a DOS Figlet font, or convert it to just LFs
and post both... seems like a lot of work just to please unix-types.  Is
there any way to get them to work on both without converting them?
  -Den
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From: Den...@mindlink.bc.ca (Dennis Monbourquette)
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Subject: Talk: Figlet fonts
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