Help with figlets

	Could someone out there please help explain how you
use those figlet fonts?  I would like to know how to change
words into fonts, but have no idea where to start.  And I
think people will start getting annoyed if I kept asking them
to make this word in a certain font and then another in a
different font... and so on.  So if someone were kind enough
to tel me where to get this program and how to use it, I'd
appreciate it.  I don't have ftp access so that probably limits
the choices.  And I have no programing knowledge so that makes
it even harder for me.  Thanks for the help.

			BAR

In article <3a7vp7$t8...@adam.cc.sunysb.edu>, bye...@ic.sunysb.edu (Barry Yee) writes:
USay>	Could someone out there please help explain how you
USay>use those figlet fonts?  I would like to know how to change
USay>words into fonts, but have no idea where to start...

	Okay, let me do my best here...=)
	Figlet is available via ftp from The Scarecrow's (Bob Allison) ftp site
at ftp.wwa.com in the subdirectory /pub/Scarecrow/Figlet
	The file for Unix is called (I believe) Figlet-unix.tar.Z...but don't
quote me on that =)
	So, after you download the file from his site, you have to 
uncompress it by typing: uncompress Figlet-unix.tar.Z
	Next, you need to "untar" the file by typing: tar -xvf Figlet-unix.tar
(the .Z disappears when you uncompress it).
	This will create a directory called figlet2.1.1....in here you will find
a file README and a manual page (figlet.6)...reading them tells you everything
you need to know about using figlet.
	Once you have figlet, now you need a few fonts..=)
	You can also get these from ftp.wwa.com, in /pub/Scarecrow/Figlet/Fonts.
	You will have to experiment a little to see which ones you like.
	Hope this helps and, if not, I'm sure someone else will pick up where I 
left off..=)

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