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This ftp site now supports on the fly compression/uncompression and
"tar"ing!  You may append a .gz to any file that is not already .gz and it
will automatically be gzipped before being sent to you.  Similarly, you 
may take a ".gz" or ".Z" off a file that already has it, and it will be
uncompressed before being sent to you.  You can also download entire
directories by "get"ing the directory name with ".tar" or ".tar.gz"
appended. 

If you have any questions about this or any other aspect of this site, 
please don't hesitate to drop me an email message:

        -- Daniel Simmons/simmdan@nicoh.com, 9/23/95

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This is the "official" Figlet distribution.

Figlet is for doing
         _   _    _                _ _ _          _   _    _
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        |  _| ' \| | ' \/ _` (_-< | | | |/ / -_) |  _| ' \| (_-<_
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If you like figlet (hey, even if you _hate_ figlet), please send an
e-mail message to figlet@uiuc.edu.

The official FIGlet web page: http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~chai/figlet.html

Ftp archive contents
====================

Here's a little map:

figlet ----+-> fonts -----+-> ours 
           |              +-> ms-dos 
           |              +-> contributed
           |              \-> international
           |                  
           +-> program ---+-> acorn 
           |              +-> amiga
           |              +-> apple-ii 
           |              +-> atari-st 
           |              +-> mac
           |              +-> ms-dos 
	   |              +-> nextstep
           |              +-> os2
           |              +-> unix 
	   |              +-> windows
           |              \-> old 
           |                  
           +-> util 
           |
           \-> incoming

Figlet is available for several different platforms.  The program is 
available (in source and/or binaries depending upon the platform) under
the directory "program".  This directory has a subdirectory for each
supported platforms.

The "program" directory also has an "old" subdirectory for some old
versions of the software.  In many cases, the distribution is available
either as a compressed archive of some sort or as a uuencoded text file. 

Other parts of the archive include:

Subdirectories:		Descriptions:
---------------		-------------
fonts			figlet fonts
fonts/ours		our fonts
fonts/contributed	contributed fonts
fonts/international	international fonts
fonts/msdos		MS-DOS only fonts
util			utilities
incoming		upload new fonts and utilities here
			(please email figlet@uiuc.edu if you do so
			 that we'll know to make them available.)

Utilities available in util subdirectory include:

Use binary mode: --OR--	Use text mode, then uudecode:	Description:
----------------	-----------------------------	------------
bigfig.tar						Makes extra-big chars
chkfont.c.Z		chkfont.uue			Font checker
chkfont.zip		chkfont-msdos.uu                        " for msdos
figlist							List installed fonts
fsfiglet						Multi-font perl script
gzip-1.2.4.tar						Compression program
showfigfonts						Show font samples
uue.tar.Z		uue.uue				Better uudecode
zfiglet							Uses compressed fonts
compressed-font-figlet					Info on where to get
							a version of figlet
							that's been hacked to
							use compressed fonts
							directly.