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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 7 Nov 1994.

                            
    
    
Re: Figlet for MS-DOS
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: Figlet for MS-DOS

                    

                        From Todd Hale <tha...@novell.com>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 7 Nov 1994 18:46                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
Danni Bauer <bau...@gtetel.com> writes:
>Someone else wrote:
>> I'm having trouble with FIGLET for DOS. I get it do load fonts, type the 
>> nice words, etc. etc. But how do I cut these words from the dos window, 
>> into a word processor, or what ever?

>In DOS I do:    echo HELLO | figlet -f cool > filename.txt

>Then open the file in a WP.

Or do it in a DOSBox (sounds like a cyber-bumper sticker).  I run it in a 
Windowed DOSBox and copy it from there (System Menu/Edit/Mark, drag around the 
text you want, hit Enter(!), then paste it wherever).


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tha...@novell.com, unofficially speaking _.--._.--._.--.3D waterskiing!



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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