ASCII art printer Readme
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Program Name ... :  aaprint.pl
Current Version  :  1.0 (first release)
Date ........... :  09/22/2000
Author ......... :  Cyrille Artho (cyrille@artho.com)

Note: this package is obsolete, get aafont instead, from the same page:
http://artho.com/fun_stuff/aafont/

What is is:
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A Perl script that rewrites its input, 2.5 times larger, as
     _ _           ___
 /\ ( / | |   /\ |) | 
/--\_)\_| |  /--\|\ | .

Why?
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Don't ask - because it is possible :)

How it works:
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Both files (aaprint.pl and abc) have to be in the same directory, which has to
be the present working directory. If you extract the package with
tar -xf aaprint.tar
then you just have to
cd aaprint
and you can use the script.

Usage:
aaprint [SPACING>=0]
The program expects input from STDIN and writes its output to STDOUT.
Commonly, it is therefore used like:
./aaprint.pl <inputfile >outputfile

Screenshots:
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There are a few screenshots in the archive, taken with the gnome-terminal and
a certain font (Courier Bitstream/Biznet or Terminal Bitstream). The other
screenshots were taken using the standard xterm with the "tiny" and
"unreadable" font settings, respectively.

Todo:
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The kerning algorithm used in the program is quite primitive, and therefore
still exhibits weaknesses with some character combinations. Impromevements
are welcome :)

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A note for Windows users:
You need to install Perl 5.004 or higher, get it from http://www.perl.com/