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Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 12:57:34 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [ITP]: aalib-1.4.0
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On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 07:58:22PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been working on getting ggi packaged, but I noticed one of the 
> optional libraries was aalib.  I knew that we already had a package for 
> figlet, so I thought the project would be interested in this library. 
> This was provided as a package in 1998 for B19, but has since been 
> deprecated AFAIK.  You can do some pretty interesting things with it 
> such as ascii stereograms and ascii fractals.  Also, it is a support 
> library for both gtk and ImagMagik.  Finally, IMHO, it beats the pants 
> off of netpbm for converting graphics to ascii art.  If you want more 
> info, check out: http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/
> 
> It builds OOTB with minor tweaks, so if there is no objections, I'll 
> package it up and provide the necessary hint files and such.

No objections from me.  Just send the links to the packed files
and the full setup.hint text to this list.

Corinna

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