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From: James Howard <howardjp@well.com>
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Subject: Re: banner(6)
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

> James Howard said on Apr 16, 2001 at 13:06:20:
> > > He meant character sets =P
> > 
> > Can I get them anti-aliased?
> 
> Depends.  Fundamentally, these are not X11 (or ps or truetype) fonts; you
> can use them on an ordinary text terminal.   But if you're running X,
> and your X server supports it, you can get suitable fuzzy outlines
> around the individual ASCII characters which comprise each letter of
> this font....

Look, I was mocking the use of the word "font" to describe the letters :)


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