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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 22 Jun 1998.
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Eftiwall font

Eftiwall font

alt.ascii-art · 12 messages · 22 Jun 1998 - 5 Jul 1998
Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 22 Jun 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Here's a very old posting of what is said to be a Figlet Font named
"Eftiwall" based on Luke the Spook. I cannot easily see how it could
be used with Figlet.

Has anyone got, or used, a copy of this Figlet font?

Is it worth figletising?

=================================================================

From: "c:WINSOCKKA9QSPOOLMAIL" <pet...@g6glx.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: Faces
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 20:07:00 GMT
Message-ID: <794...@g6glx.demon.co.uk>

This is a map of most of a font for the 'Figlet' program

 The font is called 'Eftiwall'

     ...           ...           ...           ...
    (o o)         (- o)         (o -)         (- -)
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-

     ...           ...           ...           ...
    (* *)         (x x)         (o O)         (O o)
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-

     ...           ___           ,,,           ooo
    ( oo)         (o o)         (o o)         (o o)
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-

     ===           +++           ###          -*~*-
    (o o)         (o o)         (o o)         (o o)
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-

     ***           |||          -`^'-          /777
    (o o)         (o o)         (o o)         (o o)
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-

     _/7           )))           (((           xxx
    (o o)         (o o)         (o o)         (o o)
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-
                                  _
  `  ___  '        @__           ((_           >X<
 -  (O o)  -      (o o)         (o o)         (o o)
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-

     '*`          \-^-/          ^^^           )|(
    (o o)         (o o)         (o o)         (o o)
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-

                                 (           |
     \|/           &&&           _)_         |.===.
    (o o)         (o o)         (o o)        {}o o{}
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-

    ( ( (                           ...           |"|
  '. ___ .'       ,,,,,        o,*,(o o)         _|_|_
 '  (> <) '      /(o o)\      8(o o)(_)Ooo       (o o)
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO-(_)---Ooo----ooO--(_)--Ooo-

      _                          ___         .      .
    _|_|_        __MMM__        .|||.      .  .:::.
    (o o)         (o o)         (o o)        :(o o):  .
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-

                   ___         _     _          ___
     vvv          /\#/\      o' \,=./ `o       /_\ `*
    (0~0)        /(o o)\        (o o)         (o o)
ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-

    _   _      #   ___      #                 #     ___
   '\\-//`     #  <_*_>     #=ooO=========Ooo=#    '/_\
    (o o)      #  (o o)     #  \\  (o o)  //  #    (o o)
ooO--(_)--Ooo--8---(_)--Ooo---------(_)--------ooO--(_)--Ooo-

     !!!                                        o
  `  _ _  '     `  _ ,  '       ()_()        ` /_\ '
 -  (OXO)  -   -  (o)o)  -      (o o)       - (o o) -
ooO--(_)--Ooo--ooO'(_)--Ooo-ooO--`o'--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-

     ___       #  #  #  #       _   _             .
   .'_#_`.     #  #..#  #      (_)-(_)        ,-_-|
   |[o o]|     #  #O #) #       (o o)        ([o o])
ooO--(_)--Ooo-o#O-#(_#--#oo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-

                     n
    ((__))      ____/_\____
     (00)          (z z)
nn--(o__o)--nn-ooO--(_)--Ooo-


-------------------------------,------------------------------------------
 ____  ____  ____  ____  ____  l
(  _ \( ___)(_  _)( ___)(  _ \ l 'When I give food to the poor, they
 )___/ )__)   )(   )__)  )   / l  call me a saint. When I ask why the poor
(__)  (____) (__) (____)(_)\_) l  have no food, they call me a communist'
pet...@g6glx.demon.co.uk        l                 (Dom Helder Camara)
-------------------------------'------------------------------------------

====================================================================

Bye,

Lester5374 <les...@aol.com> 22 Jun 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
>Here's a very old posting of what is said to be a Figlet Font named
>"Eftiwall" based on Luke the Spook. I cannot easily see how it could
>be used with Figlet.

It's the same as a symbol font.

>Has anyone got, or used, a copy of this Figlet font?

Yes, I do And you can get it here with all of the rest of the fonts:

ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/fonts/contributed/


.
http://members.aol.com/lester5374/index.htm  -  Ansi home page 
FTP://members.aol.com/lester5374/ansi  - To download the ANSI format

Lester5374 <les...@aol.com> wrote:
>>Here's a very old posting of what is said to be a Figlet Font named
>>"Eftiwall" based on Luke the Spook. I cannot easily see how it could
>>be used with Figlet.

>It's the same as a symbol font.

>>Has anyone got, or used, a copy of this Figlet font?

>Yes, I do And you can get it here with all of the rest of the fonts:

>ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/fonts/contributed/

OK, that turns out to be the definitive Figlet site...I do not know
why it is not listed in the Figlet section of the Ascii Art FAQ?

I got the latest Figlet 2.2 version from there and the 76kb
"figfont.txt" file is awesome in amount of detailed information it
contains...far more than the manual itself.

I also got the Contributed Fonts and there is a 3.3 Mb file ( the
mind boggles as to contents) of International Fonts which I did not
download.


Also there is a link to the official figlet site at Ian Chai's
homepage which endorses the archive at ftp.internexus.net:


-----------------  extract from Ian Chai's page --------------------


Who do I get FIGlet from?

   Laszlo Vecsey has been kind enough to provide space on his FTP
   server, ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/.

   o UNIX (source code) and associated utilities
   o MS-DOS
   o Macintosh FIGlet for MacOS page
   o Amiga
   o Apple II GS - GNO
   o Atari ST
   o Acorn
   o OS/2 (FIGshell, a GUI-based shell for FIGlet for OS/2)
   o NeXTstep
   o Microsoft Windows ( FIGWin, a re-implementation of FIGlet with a
   GUI)

   Many fonts are also available:
   o Standard distribution
   o Contributed fonts
   o International fonts
   o MS-DOS specific fonts
   o Browse available fonts

   WUARCHIVE has a mirror of FIGlet at
   ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/graphics/graphics/misc/figlet

-------------------------   end of extract -------------------------



So having now seen the complete EFTIWALL.FLF font and the
explanatory text file I have a better idea of how it works although
its use is obviously limited. You have to type in a character to
select a particular picture so you need the complete reference
chart:


======== eftiwall.txt =====================================================

Colin Douthwaite wrote:
>... 
> > ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/fonts/contributed/
> 
> OK, that turns out to be the definitive Figlet site...I do not know
> why it is not listed in the Figlet section of the Ascii Art FAQ?

Well, goshdarnit, it was there last time I checked ...
http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpt26/art/ascii/faq/#text reads:

----
    The Figlet home page is at
    http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html. This site links
    to the FTP site ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/, where you can
    download versions of the program for  many different platforms.
----

> Also there is a link to the official figlet site at Ian Chai's
> homepage which endorses the archive at ftp.internexus.net:
>...

Yep, that's in the above section too :-)

> 
> Bye,

-- 
   .._o  Matthew Thomas
 ..://\/ http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpt26/ (Site for sore eyes)
..:_/\   Matthew's e-mail quote for the day:
  ..:/   `Look, if I wanted your input, I would have CCed to you!'

Matthew Thomas <mpt...@spamfree.land> wrote:
>Colin Douthwaite wrote:
>>... 
>> > ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/fonts/contributed/
>> 
>> OK, that turns out to be the definitive Figlet site...I do not know
>> why it is not listed in the Figlet section of the Ascii Art FAQ?

>Well, goshdarnit, it was there last time I checked ...
>http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpt26/art/ascii/faq/#text reads:

>----
>    The Figlet home page is at
>    http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html. This site links
>    to the FTP site ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/, where you can
>    download versions of the program for  many different platforms.
>----

>> Also there is a link to the official figlet site at Ian Chai's
>> homepage which endorses the archive at ftp.internexus.net:
>>...

>Yep, that's in the above section too :-)


Oops, sorry, I completely missed that paragraph. I was reading the
eye-catching list of http:// sites for web browsers which appears
below that paragraph and readily catches the eye.

What I would suggest is that mention is made of all the Figlet Fonts
being at internexus as well as programs.

>----
>    The Figlet home page is at
>    http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html. This site links
>    to the FTP site ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/, where you can
>    download versions of the program for  many different platforms.
>----

perhaps...

----
    The Figlet home page is at
    http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html.

    This site links to the FTP site
    ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/, where you can
    download versions of the program for many different platforms.

    All the Figlet Fonts are also available from this site.
----

Bye,

.----- On 26 Jun 1998 05:18:08 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted:
|
|    All the Figlet Fonts are also available from this site.
'------------------------

'A lot of FIGlet fonts are also available from this site.'

See you,
Martin (still working on the self portrait! <g>)

|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> wrote:
>.----- On 26 Jun 1998 05:18:08 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted:
>|
>|    All the Figlet Fonts are also available from this site.
>'------------------------

>'A lot of FIGlet fonts are also available from this site.'

What site is that site then?

I bet it doesn't have that 3.3 megabyte compressed file of
International Fonts...there must be hundreds of 'em in there.

Bye,

.----- On 1 Jul 1998 09:59:40 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted:
|Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> wrote:
|>.----- On 26 Jun 1998 05:18:08 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted:
|>|
|>|    All the Figlet Fonts are also available from this site.
|>'------------------------
|
|>'A lot of FIGlet fonts are also available from this site.'
|
|What site is that site then?
|
|I bet it doesn't have that 3.3 megabyte compressed file of
|International Fonts...there must be hundreds of 'em in there.
'------------------

I wasn`t announcing another... I was 'correcting' your wording... you don`t know
it has all of them --- some may only exist on the hard drive of their creator!

Be seein' ya...
Martin

|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

>I wasn`t announcing another... I was 'correcting' your wording... you don`t
>know
>it has all of them --- some may only exist on the hard drive of their
>creator!

Heh. Like the ten ASCII fonts of mine I haven't figletized. I don't know if I
will either, it's a pain in the ascii.
.
http://members.aol.com/lester5374/index.htm  -  Ansi home page 
FTP://members.aol.com/lester5374/ansi  - To download the ANSI format

>>Heh. Like the ten ASCII fonts of mine I haven't figletized. I don't know if
>I
>>will either, it's a pain in the ascii.
>
>Well it wouldn't be if as you design your characters you put them
>at the left margin underneath each other instead of rows across the
>screen.
>
>The real pain is in moving all the letters into a vertical line
>listing at the left margin so that the figlet codes can be added.
>A good wordprocessor with a few tricks can be useful to assist in
>making the addition of figlet codes to each character

I could line them up in five minutes with TheDraw, that's the easiest part of
it.

>BTW Have you had a look at that 3.3 megabyte International Font file
>on the Figlet archive?

I don't know.
.
http://members.aol.com/lester5374/index.htm  -  Ansi home page 
FTP://members.aol.com/lester5374/ansi  - To download the ANSI format

On 2 Jul 1998 22:22:50 GMT, les...@aol.com (Lester5374) wrote:

>>I wasn`t announcing another... I was 'correcting' your wording... you don`t
>>know
>>it has all of them --- some may only exist on the hard drive of their
>>creator!

>Heh. Like the ten ASCII fonts of mine I haven't figletized. I don't know if I
>will either, it's a pain in the ascii.

Well it wouldn't be if as you design your characters you put them
at the left margin underneath each other instead of rows across the
screen.

The real pain is in moving all the letters into a vertical line
listing at the left margin so that the figlet codes can be added.
A good wordprocessor with a few tricks can be useful to assist in
making the addition of figlet codes to each character.

The interesting part is the testing after figletisation to see how
each font looks when used in practice.

I have found Normand Veilleux's Font which he said could not be
figletised but I think I can prove him wrong. It is a big font.

BTW Have you had a look at that 3.3 megabyte International Font file
on the Figlet archive?

Bye,
 

Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 5 Jul 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
On 3 Jul 1998 09:14:53 GMT, les...@aol.com (Lester5374) wrote:

>>BTW Have you had a look at that 3.3 megabyte International Font file
>>on the Figlet archive?

>I don't know.

Here's what I found in the Figlet Fonts directory at ftp.internexus.net:


       The Internet Nexus [Tue Jun 23 13:46:26 1998]
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            Welcome to the Internet Nexus FTP Site

ftp> cd fonts

drwxr-xr-x   6 figlet   NEXUS      1024 Dec  9  1997 .
drwxr-xr-x   5 figlet   NEXUS      1024 Mar  6 19:47 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 figlet   NEXUS      3072 Dec  8  1997 contributed
-rw-r--r--   1 figlet   NEXUS    344190 Dec  9  1997 contributed.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x   2 figlet   NEXUS      1024 Dec  8  1997 international
-rw-r--r--   1 figlet   NEXUS   3681668 Dec  9  1997 international.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x   2 figlet   NEXUS      1024 Dec  8  1997 ms-dos
drwxr-xr-x   2 figlet   NEXUS      1024 Dec  8  1997 ours
-rw-r--r--   1 figlet   NEXUS     46339 Dec  9  1997 ours.tar.gz

I downloaded the 344k contributed.tar.gz file which, when unzipped
using GZIP and detar-ed using EXTAR, it yielded about 125 Figlet
Fonts which had been made and contributed by Figlet users over the
years.

I did not download the 3.68Meg file international.tar.gz because it
would have cost me about $16 in traffic charges and would have taken
a long time on my 14,400 Baud modem. I would expect that file to
contain about 1500 Figlet Fonts...enough for everyone ?  :-)

Bye,

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