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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 27 Oct 2001.
Re: Bored beyond belief

Re: Bored beyond belief

CeeJay writes
>>Bateau wrote
>> Turn it into a figlet font.
>
>I already did. - I posted it in alt.binaries.pictures.ascii (because this is
>not a binaries group)
>
>However it has a few bugs *g* , mainly because I had to guess how the figlet
>font format works.
>If anyone could supply me with info about the format it would be much
>apreciated.
>
>Oh .. btw .. Markus , if you're reading this : The JavE Figlet font creation
>stinks .. it needs to be documented and easier to use.
>
>I suggest letting the user input each char one by one - this reduces the
>risk of JavE guesswork fouling things up.
>
>
argh! it contains errors!

(actual length of longest line of FIGcharacter data is
 greater than "maxlen" parameter)

[ encountered at FIGfont line number: 24 ]

references:-
http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html
ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet22/figfont.txt
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Subject: Re: Bored beyond belief
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