From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 16 10:22:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2041637B422 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:22:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f3GHMmq57362 ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:22:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id TAA47184 ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:22:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:22:47 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Joseph Mallett Cc: James Howard , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <20010416192246.T27477@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010416190929.Q27477@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jmallett@newgold.net on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:13:00PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joseph Mallett said on Apr 16, 2001 at 13:13:00: > The same functionality could be added to both versions of banner... If you > look at Open/Net banner(1) chset.c (or is it chsets?), you can see the > character set that is used, and modify it, etc. The large banner could be > done the same, but the character sets would be complex. Now if someone > took a BMP->ASCII converter, drew large fonts, took ascii mappings of > them, and dumped them in a file, you'd have a nifty way to make 'fonts' > for banner/figlet/etc. I'm certainly in favour of including the functionality in banner. I'd say the figlet fonts are hand-made: they look too good to be bmp-to-ascii. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message