[Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (figlet - create ASCII art text)
- From: kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kapil Hari Paranjape)
- Date: Thu Sep 24 06:59:16 2009
Hello,
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
How do you draw a cat?
Take a pencil and draw on a paper.
How do you draw a chair?
You pull it and sit down.
:-) Nice!
Similarly you draw ASCII art with figlet. But only
ASCII characters, not arbitrary lines and drawings.
$ figlet hello
Some Debian folks declared figlet to be "non-DFSG" in 2004-5 as explained
here:
http://bugs.debian.org/274950
There is a "DFSG-free" alternative to figlet with the unfortunate
name "toilet" that is available from
http://libcaca.zoy.org/download.html
Regards,
Kapil.
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