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From: Tony Nugent <T.Nugent@itc.gu.edu.au>
Subject: Answer: How to save Figlet to a file
Date: 1995/05/25
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dahennin@unity.ncsu.edu (The Dark Dragon) writes:


>Well, in unix you can do something like this...
>echo "Test" | figlet -f banner3-D > argh
>will put Test in the banner3-D font and output it to the file argh


>Michael Zalewski (zalewski@omnifest.uwm.edu) wrote:

>: How are you supposed to use the figlet things you make? Is there a 'save to
>: file' command or something?

This is one trick that I sometime use in vi (or vim).

You can filter lines through other commands with the ! command.
For example, say I have this typed on a line:

Warning!

If I use the ! command in vi with the cursor on this line:

!figlet -c

Then this is the result:
                  __        __               _             _ 
                  \ \      / /_ _ _ __ _ __ (_)_ __   __ _| |
                   \ \ /\ / / _` | '__| '_ \| | '_ \ / _` | |
                    \ V  V / (_| | |  | | | | | | | | (_| |_|
                     \_/\_/ \__,_|_|  |_| |_|_|_| |_|\__, (_)
                                                     |___/   

Cheers
Tony
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