.\" .\" bigtext - print big text using X11 fonts .\" Copyright (C) 2004, 2007-2010 Peter Miller .\" .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU .\" General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program. If not, see . .\" .ad l .hy 0 .nf .so etc/version.so BigText \*(v)

BigText \*(v)

The BigText comamnd is used to print big text using X11 fonts. It is similar to many other banner(1) commands, except that it has all of the X11 fonts to draw with.

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BigText runs on almost any flavor of UNIX which has X11 and an X11 Font Server. The source distribution is self configuring using a GNU Autoconf generated configure script.

BigText can be used to draw .sig blocks, but the results are not always small enough; you may like to check Figlet as well.


BigText is written and owned by Peter Miller <pmiller@ opensource. org. au> and is freely distributable under the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL. There is more Software by Peter Miller at his home page.

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