LYNX-DEV LYNX: what is that "figlet" stuff I just saw?

[David Combs]

Please, what is this "figlet" stuff; looks interesting?
Ditto for "bright", whatever that is.

THANKS


> From address@hidden Wed Dec  3 16:40:47 1997
> From: address@hidden (Philip Webb)
> Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV crash bug in lynx Ver. 2.7.1 ?
> 
> 971203 Susan Dittmar wrote: 
> > I just had two crashes with lynx ver 2.7.1 (on a solaris machine)
> > in exactly the same situation.
> > I connected to http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/, filled the form 
> > (with my name and all fonts selected), looked at the output,
> > and then tried to save this page to a local file.
> > After typing the filename lynx crashed :-(
> 
> using 2-7 & Unix i had no problems having filled in a test message
> & a couple of font choices.  i used  p  to print the output to a file,
> blanked the given filename with  ^u  & used my own filename  figlet.d1 .
> it was downloaded correctly to that file as below:
> 
> 
>                            Figlet for this is a test
>                                        
> 
> Using alphabet
>  t  h                          t           t
>  t  h    ii      ii            t           t
> ttt hhh      ss      ss   aa  ttt eee  ss ttt
>  t  h  h ii  s   ii  s   a a   t  e e  s   t
>  tt h  h ii ss   ii ss   aaa   tt ee  ss   tt
> 
> 
> 
> Using bright
> .######..##..##..######...####...........######...####............####..
> ...##....##..##....##....##................##....##..............##..##.
> ...##....######....##.....####.............##.....####...........######.
> ...##....##..##....##........##............##........##..........##..##.
> ...##....##..##..######...####...........######...####...........##..##.
> ........................................................................
> .######..######...####...######.
> ...##....##......##........##...
> ...##....####.....####.....##...
> ...##....##..........##....##...
> ...##....######...####.....##...
> ................................
> 
>    [1]Top Website: [2]Surfplaza Webmaster: [3]David Wallis
> 
> References
> 
>    1. 
> http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/figlet.cgi?TEXT=this+is+a+test&FONT=alphabet&FONT=bright#top
>    2. http://www.surfplaza.com/
>    3. mailto:address@hidden
> 
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