On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Doc Shipley wrote:
      I think it's called "figs" or
"fig". 
 Do you mean DEC PHIGS by any chance? 
 
  No, but I had the name wrong.  It's "figlet".  :) 
 
fig/xfig is a general-purpose drawing program; X application. Doesn't do
ASCII character drawing, which is not typical orthogonal line drawing. It's
specialized.
figlet does only this:
tomj at fiche:~ echo foo | figlet
   __
  / _| ___   ___
| |_ / _ \ / _ \
|  _| (_) | (_) |
|_|  \___/ \___/