Notepad/enter/Coding Tips (Classical)/Terminal Tips/1. Terminals/Text & Editors/ASCII.md

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a standard encoding for electronic communication. But people use it for art purposes as well as that retro-internet vibe. Lots of fun things can still be done usingASCII and is also resource efficient!

Art

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For ASCII Star Wars movie in full in your terminal run:

Telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl -

Packages

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• Figlet is how to create large text encodings in your terminal, run:

figlet -c "This is an example"

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• Toilet uses ASCII encodings to create text/images in the terminal as an extension of the older figlet package !