Help with Figlet 2.1

In article <31f9c9c0.5596418@news> obs...@unknown.origin (Vapor) writes:
>From: obs...@unknown.origin (Vapor)
>Subject: Help with Figlet 2.1
>Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 07:53:32 GMT

>Hi
>I just downloaded figlet 2.1 and bout 200 figlet fonts
>and I'm some what lost as to how to use it.  I figured
>out how to do most everything but save the output.
>I can get it to write in any of the fonts but I don't 
>know what to do with it to save it to file.  This is
>probably a simple Dos task that I'm to dumb to figure out.
>I got Windows down real well, but Only a little Dos.
>Can anyone tell me how to save the output in figlet 2.1?
>                      


To get output from Figlet (or anything from the command line, such
as DIR, etc.), use >filename.ext at the end of the line. If you
want to append an existing file, use two greater-than symbols,
>>filename.txt. If you use just one ">", it will overwrite an
existing file, so be careful here.

Another trick is that if you want to use the text from an existing
file to turn into Figlet text, use "<". So you'd have something
that looks like this:

FIGLET [options] <INFILE.TXT >OUTFILE.TXT

I hope this helps.

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dcr...@primenet.com

On 27 Jul 1996 06:08:01 -0700, dcr...@primenet.com (DCrosby) wrote:

>In article <31f9c9c0.5596418@news> obs...@unknown.origin (Vapor) writes:
>>From: obs...@unknown.origin (Vapor)
>>Subject: Help with Figlet 2.1
>>Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 07:53:32 GMT
>
>>Hi
>>I just downloaded figlet 2.1 and bout 200 figlet fonts
>>and I'm some what lost as to how to use it.  I figured
>>out how to do most everything but save the output.
>>I can get it to write in any of the fonts but I don't 
>>know what to do with it to save it to file.  This is
>>probably a simple Dos task that I'm to dumb to figure out.
>>I got Windows down real well, but Only a little Dos.
>>Can anyone tell me how to save the output in figlet 2.1?
>>                      
>
>
>To get output from Figlet (or anything from the command line, such
>as DIR, etc.), use >filename.ext at the end of the line. If you
>want to append an existing file, use two greater-than symbols,
>>>filename.txt. If you use just one ">", it will overwrite an
>existing file, so be careful here.
>
>Another trick is that if you want to use the text from an existing
>file to turn into Figlet text, use "<". So you'd have something
>that looks like this:
>
>FIGLET [options] <INFILE.TXT >OUTFILE.TXT
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>___  ____ ____ ____ ____ ___  _   _ 
>|  \ |    |__/ |  | [__  |__]  \_/  
>|__/ |___ |  \ |__| ___] |__]   |
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>dcr...@primenet.com
>

It worked like a charm. Here's my first test.

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Hi
I just downloaded figlet 2.1 and bout 200 figlet fonts
and I'm some what lost as to how to use it.  I figured
out how to do most everything but save the output.
I can get it to write in any of the fonts but I don't 
know what to do with it to save it to file.  This is
probably a simple Dos task that I'm to dumb to figure out.
I got Windows down real well, but Only a little Dos.
Can anyone tell me how to save the output in figlet 2.1?
                      

                                              
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