ASCII art fonts Readme
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Program Name ... :  figlet - http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~chai/figlet.html
Current Version  :  1.0 (first release)
Date ........... :  09/25/2000
Font creator.... :  Cyrille Artho (cyrille@artho.com)

What is is:
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Two fonts for the "figlet" program (URL see above). Figlet has been written by
many people (but not me) - go to the figlet page for more information.
These two fonts require the degree sign  in order to work. If you have only
ASCII characters, then you can pipe the output into
tr '\260' o
which fixes any potentially unreadable characters but makes the output less
nice looking.
        _              _ _             _        
 _  _ _|__  _ |_.  /\ ( / ||  _ ,_|_ _|__  _ |_ 
(_\(_\ |(_)| ||_. /--\_)\_|| (_\| |_  |(_)| ||_.
                   _   _       
 _   ,_,_    . /|  _) (_  _ |_ 
| |(|| |()\^/. -+><_) |()| ||_.

Why?
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Don't ask - because it is possible :)
Lars Rohwedder told me about figlet after he saw that I created a simple font
and a small Perl script that does essentially the same as figlet does, but
without the bells and whistles. I then converted the font to figlet and added
lower case and ISO-Latin characters to it, borrowing quite a few from the
"mini" font.

How it works:
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Both font (.flf) files have to be installed in the figlet font directory.
Usually this goes like this:
cd /usr/games/lib/figlet.dir
tar -xf aafont.tar
Remove the testset* and *.gif files if you only want the two fonts.

Usage:
figlet -f aafont
figlet -f narrow
Use "figlet -k" rather than "figlet" if you want the characters with a bigger
horizontal spacing.
The program expects input from STDIN and writes its output to STDOUT.

Screenshots:
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There are a few screenshots in the archive, taken with the gnome-terminal and
the Courier Biznet font. The other screenshots were taken using the standard
xterm with the "tiny" and "unreadable" font settings, respectively.
The screenshots were made using
figlet -k -f aafont <testset2
figlet -k -f narrow <testset2
