Figlets
Version 2.2 · Glenn chappell
Description
The HP Palmtop Paper With Figlets for DOS you can create email signatures that add pizzazz and eat up bandwidth on the internet. In the days before WWW browsers and scalable fonts this was the best you could do with 7 bit ASCII characters and a monochrome screen. Fun to play with. Freeware.
Technical details
- File
figdos22.zip- Size
- 216.7 KB
- Format
- .zip
- Year
- 1997
- Added to S.U.P.E.R.
- 1998-12-20
- Files inside
- 62
- Author
- Glenn chappell
- Path
anonftp/pub/figdos22.zip
How to install it
What to send to the palmtop saves 700.4 KB
These are the files you need. You can send them from the package contents below.
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chkfont.exe→ A:\SOFT programa de DOS 16.0 KB -
figlet.exe→ A:\SOFT programa de DOS 42.5 KB
No need to put
README, figfont.txt, figlet.man, 8859-2.flc, 8859-3.flc, 8859-4.flc, 8859-5.flc, 8859-7.flc and 52 more:
they are manuals, source code or supporting material. Read them here and save 700.4 KB on a 1 MB disk.
Steps
- Copy chkfont.exe, figlet.exe to A:\SOFT. They are DOS programs: run them from the DOS icon, or add A:\SOFT to the PATH in C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to call them by name.
Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.
Package contents
Send to my palmtop
The palmtop must be waiting before you press the button, or the transfer will fail. It is the palmtop that announces it is ready, not the other way round.
Your browser cannot talk to the serial port. Direct sending uses the Web Serial API, which only exists in Chrome, Edge and Opera on desktop — not in Firefox, Safari or any mobile browser.
Download the file with the button above and copy it to the palmtop your usual way.