OT: ASCII

[Jules Richardson]

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:27 -0800, Tom Jennings wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
> 
> > figlet does only this:
> >
> > tomj at fiche:~ echo foo | figlet
> >  __
> > / _| ___   ___ | |_ / _ \ / _ \ |  _| (_) | (_) |
> > |_|  \___/ \___/
> 
> 
> HEY!! No, the @##%_) mailing list software did that!! Figlet does this:
> 
> X	  __ 
> X	 / _| ___   ___ 
> X	| |_ / _ \ / _ \ 
> X	|  _| (_) | (_) |
> X	|_|  \___/ \___/
> 
> 
> X's put in by me to protect the damned |'s.

Curious. On my client I saw the first line indented by two spaces, then
the following three lines aligned to the left margin. Readable and still
not the mess you obviously got, but still not right :)

Version with the X's works fine...

cheers

J.