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From: chai@ta12.cs.uiuc.edu (Ian Chai)
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Subject: Answer: What are Figlet fonts?
Date: 2 Nov 1994 18:25:39 -0600
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sawmengl@iscs.nus.sg (CrystalFire ~{;pCw>'A<~}) writes:
>what's  a figlet font..is it a specific font, like Arial and Times New Roman,
>or is it a type/family of fonts, like TrueType and ATM?

>what are the endearing qualities to such fonts that you want them
>so bad?  can you roughly describe their appearance?

No, they're fonts for the figlet program
          _     _      _           _
__      _| |__ (_) ___| |__     __| | ___   ___  ___
\ \ /\ / / '_ \| |/ __| '_ \   / _` |/ _ \ / _ \/ __|
 \ V  V /| | | | | (__| | | | | (_| | (_) |  __/\__ \
  \_/\_/ |_| |_|_|\___|_| |_|  \__,_|\___/ \___||___/

 _   _     _                   _ _ _          _   _     _
| |_| |__ (_)_ __   __ _ ___  | (_) | _____  | |_| |__ (_)___
| __| '_ \| | '_ \ / _` / __| | | | |/ / _ \ | __| '_ \| / __|
| |_| | | | | | | | (_| \__ \ | | |   <  __/ | |_| | | | \__ \_
 \__|_| |_|_|_| |_|\__, |___/ |_|_|_|\_\___|  \__|_| |_|_|___(_)
                   |___/
The "official" ftp site for Figlet is:
        ftp.isu.edu:pub/figlet

The Figlet WWW page
        http://math.uiuc.edu:80/~chappell/figlet/
lists some other sites.

There is also FIGLET-L, a mailing list for both updates and discussions
about figlet. If you want to be notified of updates to the Figlet
software, email
        LISTSERV@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
with the body of the email saying
        subscribe figlet-l your full name
        set figlet-l topics=SOFTWARE
where "your full name" should be your full name.

If you want to know about new fonts as well, then it should say
        subscribe figlet-l your full name
        set figlet-l topics=SOFTWARE,FONTS

If you want to be in on everything, including discussions, then just
        subscribe figlet-l your full name
will do the trick.

Remember not to post any discussions under SOFTWARE or FONTS. In fact,
you should never post under SOFTWARE -- it is for "official" releases.
You can post any new nifty software you write for figlet on the normal
discussion, and if I decide to put it in the "official" distribution,
I'll post a notice to SOFTWARE and make it available for ftp.

Ian Chai