Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:22:47 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net> Cc: James Howard <howardjp@well.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <20010416192246.T27477@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104161310530.10308-100000@aphex.newgold.net>; from jmallett@newgold.net on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:13:00PM -0400 References: <20010416190929.Q27477@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104161310530.10308-100000@aphex.newgold.net>
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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
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