RE: Design question and ASCII art

UNIX systems had a "banner" command. DOS versions available too. Similar
to Figlet (I guess).

To me, it just makes the green screen age scream out.



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On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 1:48 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Design question and ASCII art

On 12/6/2013 4:09 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

I like to use an ASCII text generator to create the headings for programs.

For example: http://martinvt.com/Tools/Figlet/figlet.html

Originally I opened the DDS with SDA and pasted the generated text
into the DSPF. Currently I am defining a CNTFLD and loading that
field in the RPG program and using an array at the bottom of the specs
to paste the ASCII text. Both methods have limitations. Hence the

question:

In your opinion is there a better way to do this?

Seems fine to me. If I were to try to enhance this, I'd probably compile
the Unix version of Figlet in PASE and pipe the output to a stream file. I
think that if you scripted it you could call it from RPG and generate them
dynamically.

RPG can read stream files. Whip up a loadFiglet(figletname) subprocedure
that reads the figlet named in the parameter (make your own stream file
hierarchy for them) and load it into a 650 byte character field. Now you
can display them anywhere-ish, as well as print them.

Hope that helps stimulate a discussion.
--buck
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