Talk: What's Figlet, and where can I get it?

In article <32budu$8s...@gagme.wwa.com>,
Thierry Grellier <gre...@curie.timb.imag.fr> wrote:
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>	Hello,
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>	I guess there is a program made to build sentences with this
>	font. How is it called and where can I find it ?
>	By the way, are there any others fonts like this ?
>
>	cheers,
>
>	Thierry
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   I thought I would post Questions 15 and 16 from ASCII Art Resources, 
on Figlet.


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   You can make lettering like the above subtitle "ANSWERS" by hand, or use a
program called Figlet.  With Figlet, the letters you type are automatically
turned into big letters.  Figlet stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.
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   Figlet is available for use on some host systems.  If it is not, you can
obtain Figlet and fonts from the sites listed in Question 16.  There are about
50 fonts for use with Figlet.  Figlet fonts have an .flf suffix.  There are a
number of examples of Figlet fonts at the end of this file.


   Figlet is currently in version 2.0, available for Unix, DOS, and Amiga.
The following utilities are also available:

         chkfont - Checks Figlet 2.0 font files for formatting errors.

        fsfiglet - Is a font switching front end to Figlet.

    showfigfonts - Prints a list of available Figlet fonts, and samples.


   Some other hosts have a program called "Banner" which performs a similar
function.


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   You can FTP Figlet from:

      ->  Host: ftp.isu.edu
          Path: pub/figlet
                This is the official site.

                Scarecrow's FTP Site
      ->  Host: ftp.wwa.com
       Address: 198.49.174.1
          Path: pub/Scarecrow/Figlet
                Has every font I have been able to find.

      ->  Host: plaza.aarnet.edu.au
          Path: graphics/graphics/misc/figlet

   You can FTP Figlet fonts from:

      ->  Host: ftp.u.washington.edu
          Path: pub/user-supported/figlet


   Depending on where you get Figlet and-or Figlet fonts from, you may have to
uudecode, uncompress, and possibly untar them.  For how to do this, see
Question 8.


   There is also a Figlet mailing list run by Ian Chai:

      -> Email: lis...@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
       Message: SUBSCRIBE FIGLET-L
                Receive new fonts, software update notices, as well as chat
                about Figlet.


   Hope this helps.

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