[REQ]ascii art of a few words

i know very little of ascii art so would like help u expetrs to write
"rahul"or "perp" using ascii art for  my startup screen , plz help .
is there some general utility for writing (i.e text using ascii art
with larger fonts) don't say banner because it prints vertically
thanx

On 06 Oct 2002 rah...@yahoo.com (the perp) wrote in 
news:790...@posting.google.com:

> i know very little of ascii art so would like help u expetrs to write
> "rahul"or "perp" using ascii art for  my startup screen , plz help .

           _           _
 _ __ __ _| |__  _   _| |
| '__/ _` | '_ \| | | | |
| | | (_| | | | | |_| | |
|_|  \__,_|_| |_|\__,_|_|


 _ __   ___ _ __ _ __
| '_ \ / _ \ '__| '_ \
| |_) |  __/ |  | |_) |
| .__/ \___|_|  | .__/
|_|             |_|

> is there some general utility for writing (i.e text using ascii art
> with larger fonts) don't say banner because it prints vertically
> thanx

The above were the default outputs of figlet. 
http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~chai/figlet.html should find it. It can do a 
variety of fonts and styles.

-- 
  ___          _                 ___           _    _    _     
 / __|_ _ __ _| |_  __ _ _ __   |   \ _ _ __ _| |__| |__| |___ 
| (_ | '_/ _` | ' \/ _` | '  \  | |) | '_/ _` | '_ \ '_ \ / -_)
 \___|_| \__,_|_||_\__,_|_|_|_| |___/|_| \__,_|_.__/_.__/_\___|

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:36:58 +0000 (UTC), rah...@yahoo.com (the perp) said something like this:

>i know very little of ascii art so would like help u expetrs to write
>"rahul"or "perp" using ascii art for  my startup screen , plz help .
>is there some general utility for writing (i.e text using ascii art
>with larger fonts) don't say banner because it prints vertically
>thanx


banner prints horizontally


$ banner -d . perp

 .....   ......  .....   .....
 .    .  .       .    .  .    .
 .    .  .....   .    .  .    .
 .....   .       .....   .....
 .       .       .   .   .
 .       ......  .    .  .

$ banner -d ~ PERP
//////  hhhhhhh oooooo  mmmmmm
/     / h       o     o m     m
/     / h       o     o m     m
//////  hhhhh   oooooo  mmmmmm
/       h       o   o   m
/       h       o    o  m
/       hhhhhhh o     o m

$ banner -d ~ RAhul
//////     h
/     /   h h    o    o  m    m  e
/     /  h   h   o    o  m    m  e
//////  h     h  oooooo  m    m  e
/   /   hhhhhhh  o    o  m    m  e
/    /  h     h  o    o  m    m  e
/     / h     h  o    o   mmmm   eeeeee


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