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
__
/ _| ___ ___
| |_ / _ \ / _ \
| _| (_) | (_) |
|_| \___/ \___/