    About FIGlet (Frank, Ian & Glenn's Letters) release 2.2.5, 31 May 2012
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    FIGlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary
    screen characters
     _ _ _          _   _     _
    | (_) | _____  | |_| |__ (_)___
    | | | |/ / _ \ | __| '_ \| / __|
    | | |   <  __/ | |_| | | | \__ \_
    |_|_|_|\_\___|  \__|_| |_|_|___(_)

    (This is meant to be viewed in a monospaced font.)  FIGlet can create
    characters in many different styles and can kern and "smush" these
    characters together in various ways.  FIGlet output is generally
    reminiscent of the sort of "signatures" many people like to put at the
    end of e-mail and UseNet messages.

    If you like FIGlet (hey, even if you *hate* FIGlet), please send an
    e-mail message to <info@figlet.org>

    The official FIGlet web page: http://www.figlet.org/

    Files -- Unix version
    ---------------------

    README       -- This file.
    figlet.c     -- The FIGlet source code.
    zipio.h,     -- A package for reading ZIP archives
    zipio.c,
    inflate.c,
    crc.c
    utf8.h,      -- A package to convert strings between UTF-8 and UCS-4.
    utf8.c
    getopt.c     -- Source for the standard "getopt" routine, in case you
                    don't have it in your C library.  Not used by default.
    Makefile     -- The FIGlet makefile.  Used by the make command.
    figlet.6     -- The FIGlet man(ual) page.
    figlist      -- Script that lists available fonts and control files.
    showfigfonts -- Script that gives a sample of each available font.
    chkfont.c    -- Source code for chkfont: a program that checks FIGlet
                    fonts for formatting errors.  You can ignore this file
                    unless you intend to design or edit fonts.
    figfont.txt  -- Text file that explains the format of FIGlet fonts.
                    You can ignore this file unless you intend to design
                    or edit fonts.
    fonts        -- Directory containing fonts and control files.
    <xxx>.flf    -- All files ending in ".flf" are FIGlet font files.
    <xxx>.flc    -- All files ending in ".flc" are FIGlet control files.

    Files -- DOS version
    --------------------

    README       -- This file
    figlet.exe   -- The FIGlet program.
    figlet.man   -- The FIGlet man(ual) page.
    showall.bat  -- Batch file that lists available fonts and samples of each.
    chkfont.exe  -- A program that checks FIGlet fonts for formatting errors.
                    You can ignore this file unless you intend to design
                    or edit fonts.
    figfont.txt  -- Text file that explains the format of FIGlet fonts.
                    You can ignore this file unless you intend to design
                    or edit fonts.
    fonts        -- Directory containing fonts and control files.
    <xxx>.flf    -- All files ending in ".flf" are FIGlet font files.
    <xxx>.flc    -- All files ending in ".flc" are FIGlet control files.

    Installing FIGlet --- Unix version
    ----------------------------------

    First decide in which directories FIGlet and the FIGlet font files
    (the ".flf" files) will be stored (we recommend "/usr/games" and
    "/usr/games/lib/figlet.dir", respectively) and which will be the
    default font (we recommend "standard.flf").

    Edit "Makefile", and set the variables DEFAULTFONTDIR and
    DEFAULTFONTFILE to the appropriate values.  Set DEFAULTFONTDIR to be
    the full pathname of the directory in which you will keep the FIGlet
    font files.  Set DEFAULTFONTFILE to be the filename of the default
    font.

    At this point, you have two choices:

    (1) Just compile FIGlet.  To go this, go into the directory containing
    the FIGlet source, and type "make figlet".  Then copy the various files
    to the proper locations.  The executable (figlet), along with figlist
    and showfigfonts, goes wherever you keep your executables.  The fonts
    (<xxx>.flf) and control files (<xxx>.flc) go in the default font
    directory.  The man page (figlet.6) goes in section 6 (usually
    /usr/man/man6).  If you cannot, or do not want to, install the man page,
    you can probably still read it using

            nroff -man figlet.6 | more

    (2) Do a complete installation.  To do the this, set the variables
    BINDIR and MANDIR in Makefile to the appropriate values.  BINDIR
    should be the full pathname of the directory in which the executable
    files should be put (we recommend "/usr/games");  MANDIR should be the
    full pathname of the directory in which the figlet man page should be
    put, generally "/usr/man/man6".  Once DEFAULTFONTDIR, DEFAULTFONTFILE,
    BINDIR and MANDIR have been set, in the directory containing the FIGlet
    source, type "make install".

    If space is a problem, the only files you absolutely must have to run
    figlet are "figlet" (the executable) and at least one font (preferably
    the one you chose to be the default font).

    Installing FIGlet -- DOS version
    --------------------------------

    Unpack the ZIPfile using PKUNZIP, Info-Zip UNZIP, WinUnzip, or any other
    ZIP-compatible program.  Be sure to use the -d option with PKUNZIP
    in order to preserve the directory structure.  We recommend that you
    unpack the archive into C:\FIGLET, but any directory will do.

    If you unpack the archive on top of an older version of FIGlet, be
    sure to delete the file FIGLET.COM.  The executable program in this
    release is named FIGLET.EXE.  You can keep your old fonts by putting
    them in a FONTS subdirectory before unpacking.  (There are upgraded
    versions of the standard fonts in the archive.)

    Using FIGlet
    ------------

    (Note: FIGlet needs a good thorough tutorial.  Currently I don't have
    the time to write one, but if anyone wants to do so, go right ahead.
    I'd be glad to help out a little.  Write us at <ianchai@usa.net> if
    you're interested.  -GGC-)

    At the shell prompt, type "figlet".  Then type, say, "Hello, world!"
    and press return.  "Hello, world!" in nice, big, designer characters
    should appear on your screen.  If you chose standard.flf to be the
    default font, you should see
     _   _      _ _                             _     _ _
    | | | | ___| | | ___    __      _____  _ __| | __| | |
    | |_| |/ _ \ | |/ _ \   \ \ /\ / / _ \| '__| |/ _` | |
    |  _  |  __/ | | (_) |   \ V  V / (_) | |  | | (_| |_|
    |_| |_|\___|_|_|\___( )   \_/\_/ \___/|_|  |_|\__,_(_)
                        |/
    Then type something else, or type an EOF (typically control-D) to quit
    FIGlet.

    Now you can send the output of figlet to a file (e.g., "figlet > file")
    and e-mail it to your friends (who will probably say, "Wow!  It must
    have taken you hours to put that together!")

    To use other fonts, use the "-f" command line option.  For example, if
    you had said "figlet -f smslant" above, you would have seen
       __ __    ____                         __   ____
      / // /__ / / /__      _    _____  ____/ /__/ / /
     / _  / -_) / / _ \_   | |/|/ / _ \/ __/ / _  /_/
    /_//_/\__/_/_/\___( )  |__,__/\___/_/ /_/\_,_(_)
                      |/

    Here are some other useful command line options:

    -c   center -- centers the output of FIGlet.
    -k   tells FIGlet to kern characters without smushing them together.
    -t   terminal -- FIGlet asks your terminal how wide it is, and uses
         this to determine when to break lines.  Normally, FIGlet assumes
         80 columns so that people with wide terminals won't annoy the
         people they e-mail FIGlet output to.
    -p   paragraph mode -- eliminates some spurious line breaks when piping
         a multi-line file through FIGlet.
    -v   version -- prints information about your copy of FIGlet.

    For in-depth explanations of these and other options, see the man page.
    DOS users, see figlet.man.

    Other Fonts & Mailing List
    --------------------------

    A good number of FIGlet fonts have been developed, most of which are
    not included in the standard FIGlet package.  Many of these can be
    obtained from http://www.figlet.org/   Some non-Roman fonts are
    available at this site.  As of this writing, we have Hebrew, Cyrillic
    (Russian) and Greek.

    There are 3 mailing lists available for FIGlet:
    	 figlet@figlet.org           General discussion of FIGlet
    	 figletfonts@figlet.org      Announcements about fonts
    	 figletsoftware@figlet.org   Announcements about software
    	 (The last two lists are moderated)

    To subscribe or unsubscribe from the FIGlet mailing lists, please visit
    the corresponding URL:
    	 http://www.figlet.org/mailman/listinfo/figlet
    	 http://www.figlet.org/mailman/listinfo/figletfonts
    	 http://www.figlet.org/mailman/listinfo/figletsoftware

    Also, for those who maintain archives of figlet fonts, please note that
    all of the standard fonts have been changed, as of release 2.1, to
    include non-ASCII characters.  These fonts are the following:

    big.flf (also contains Greek)
    banner.flf (also contains Cyrillic and Japanese katakana)
    block.flf
    bubble.flf
    digital.flf
    ivrit.flf (right-to-left, also contains Hebrew)
    lean.flf
    mini.flf
    script.flf
    shadow.flf
    slant.flf
    small.flf
    smscript.flf
    smshadow.flf
    smslant.dld
    standard.flf
    term.flf

    The new versions of these fonts can be identified by the words "figlet
    release 2.1" somewhere in the first few lines.

    Other Stuff
    -----------

    FIGlet is available for operating systems other than Unix.
    Please see ftp://ftp.figlet.org/program/

    Although you don't have to design your own fonts to use FIGlet, we'd
    certainly like it if lots of people did make up new FIGlet fonts.  If
    you feel like giving it a try, see the "FONT FILE FORMAT" section of
    the man page.  If you do design a font, please let us know by mailing us
    at <info@figlet.org>

    See "Other Things to Try" in the EXAMPLES section of the man page
    for... well... other things to try.

    Authors
    -------

    FIGlet was written mostly by Glenn Chappell <c486scm@semovm.semo.edu>.  The
    author not being an e-mail fanatic, most correspondence (bug reports, rave
    reviews, etc.) used to be handled to his secretary (who is definitely
    an e-mail fanatic), Ian Chai <ianchai@usa.net> and has since moved on to
    another FIGlet enthusiast, Christiaan Keet <info@figlet.org>. Current
    maintenance is conducted by Claudio Matsuoka <cmatsuoka@gmail.com>.