From owner-figlet-l@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU Mon Jul 17 16:32:56 1995 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 16:27:20 -0500 Reply-To: "Discussions about the multi-font large-letter program, FIGLET." Sender: "Discussions about the multi-font large-letter program, FIGLET." From: Roger Espel Llima Subject: Re: Patches: figlet and compressed font files? To: Multiple recipients of list FIGLET-L >> Tony Nugent writes >> >Anyway, a while ago there were some patches distributed here >> >that allowed figlet to work with compressed font files. >> >> Not quite. We've never distributed any patches for figlet. What we do >> have is a Unix shell script, called "zfiglet", that handles >> compressed figlet font files. >> >> To use it (Unix only): save it to a file (called "zfiglet") and make >> the file executable. Make a new directory for compressed fonts, put >> your fonts in this directory, and compress them. Put the name of this >> directory in the appropriate place in zfiglet (see the code for >> instructions). Then use zfiglet just as you'd use figlet. [ code deleted ] The problem with this code is (other than it's way less efficient than a patch to figlet to make it read the compressed files) that it needs write access to the fonts. Works if you have figlet on your own dir, but not for a system installation. I posted long ago (like 4 months ago) some patches for figlet to make it read compressed fonts. They're simple and work well, but since apparently they didn't get anyone very excited here, I have the patched version up on http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html -- e-mail: roger.espel.llima@ens.fr IRC: orabidoo "I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress" King Crimson, _Indiscipline_