Re: [PLUG] ASCII writer?

[bergman@merctech.com]

The pithy ruminations from "Benjamin Folk Jr." <ben.folk@comcast.net> on "Re: [PLUG] ASCII writer?" were:

=> "banner" at the command prompt...


Yep.


=> 
=> It will prompt you for a message

Or accept input on the command line, as in:

	banner TEST

to produce:

  #######  #######   #####   #######  
     #     #        #     #     #     
     #     #        #           #     
     #     #####     #####      #     
     #     #              #     #     
     #     #        #     #     #     
     #     #######   #####      #     



I wrote a perl script that will take banner(1) output and rotate it 90 degrees...with multiple rotations you can get:

                         
     #      #####   #######     #   
     #     #     #        #     #   
     #     #              #     #   
     #      #####     #####     #   
     #           #        #     #   
     #     #     #        #     #   
  #######   #####   #######  #######
                                    

which well really make the night-shift print operator think that there's a problem with the line printer. :)


Let me know if you want a copy.

Mark

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=> Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
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=> > Does anybody know of a program that outputs letters in ASCII art?
=> >
=> > For example, if I input TEST I want something like this:
=> >
=> > TTTTTTTTT   EEEEEEEEE    SSSSSS     TTTTTTTTT
=> >    TT       EE          SS    SS       TT
=> >    TT       EE           SS            TT
=> >    TT       EEEEEE         SSSS        TT
=> >    TT       EE                 SS      TT
=> >    TT       EE          SS    SS       TT
=> >    TT       EEEEEEEEE    SSSSSS        TT
=> >
=> > I know it's been done in the past - those old print job banner pages for
=> > example.  I just cannot find a perl/python/ruby/whatever version and don't have
=> > time to write one myself.  At least not THIS month!
=> >
=> > Eric
=> > - --
=> > #  Eric Lucas
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