From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 16 10:30: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (durham0-128.dsl.gtei.net [4.3.0.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2807537B440 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:29:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 15413 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Apr 2001 17:29:24 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:29:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: James Howard , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) In-Reply-To: <20010416192246.T27477@lpt.ens.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yeah, I'm saying that would be an _easy_ way to generate character sets from graphics/fonts. /joseph -- Joseph Mallett Security Specialist jmallett@newgold.net www.newgold.net irc.newgold.net/#xMach xMach Core Team jmallett@xMach.org www.xMach.org xMach Research Group www.xmrg.com Crystal Pepsi: sure it caused cancer, but it was leet. On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message