[GreenKeys] program to make large letters from ascii, or ascii art

[Steve Schlink]

Gil,

Sounds like the 'banner' command in unix:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_(Unix)

You might search for a Winblows version, if that's what you laptop is running.

Steve

At 09:45 AM 3/13/2008 -0700, gil smith wrote:
>Hi folks:
>
>Does anyone have a link to a program that makes large letters from ascii 
>characters?  Something that lets me enter a string like "GREENKEYS" and 
>have it generate an acsii file image of large characters -- like the 
>3-inch-high chars the university line printers put at the beginning of my 
>fortran job runs.
>
>I am taking some tty machines to my cub scout meeting this afternoon (I am 
>a den leader for eleven second graders), and I wanted to print a little 
>greeting.  An ascii art file might be good too if anyone has a short one 
>(I only have baudot ones here), but I thought the boys would like to see
>HELLO
>WOLF
>DEN 4
>print out in big letters as they are arriving.
>
>It needs to be ascii, since I and sending to my M15 through my laptop's 
>usb adapter, and it does not support 5-bit mode for heavymetal or 
>rttyart.  But usb works just fine using HyperTerminal or other aciii 
>terminal emulator (and letting TTY-Connect convert to baudot).  I can just 
>do an ascii file transfer and let it go to town.
>
>thanks in advance,
>
>gil
>
>
>
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