On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
  figlet does only this:
 tomj at fiche:~ echo foo | figlet
  __
 / _| ___   ___ | |_ / _ \ / _ \ |  _| (_) | (_) |
 |_|  \___/ \___/ 
HEY!! No, the @##%_) mailing list software did that!! Figlet does this:
X         __
X        / _| ___   ___
X       | |_ / _ \ / _ \
X       |  _| (_) | (_) |
X       |_|  \___/ \___/
X's put in by me to protect the damned |'s.