IMPORTANT: Please do not post solutions, hints, or other spoilers until at least 60 hours after the date of this message. Thanks. IMPORTANTE: Por favor, no enviéis soluciones, pistas, o cualquier otra cosa que pueda echar a perder la resolución del problema hasta que hayan pasado por lo menos 60 horas desde el envío de este mensaje. Gracias. IMPORTANT: S'il vous plaît, attendez au minimum 60 heures après la date de ce message avant de poster solutions, indices ou autres révélations. Merci. WICHTIG: Bitte schicken Sie keine Lösungen, Tipps oder Hinweise für diese Aufgabe vor Ablauf von 60 Stunden nach dem Datum dieser Mail. Danke. BELANGRIJK: Stuur aub geen oplossingen, hints of andere tips in de eerste 60 uur na het verzendingstijdstip van dit bericht. Waarvoor dank. VNIMANIE: Pozhalujsta ne shlite reshenija, nameki na reshenija, i voobshe lyubye podskazki v techenie po krajnej mere 60 chasov ot daty etogo soobshenija. Spasibo. Qing3 Zhu4Yi4: Qing3 Ning2 Deng3Dao4 Jie1Dao4 Ben3 Xin4Xi2 Zhi1Hou4 60 Xiao3Shi2, Zai4 Fa1Biao3 Jie3Da2, Ti2Shi4, Huo4 Qi2Ta1 Hui4 Xie4Lou4 Da2An4 De5 Jian4Yi4. Xie4Xie4. ---------------------------------------------------------------- banner(1) and cursive(1) are old UNIX utilities that take ASCII input (0-127) and render the input in a hard-coded font like the examples below. Later, FIGlet was created to use a plain text format font file to allow a wider variety of output styles. % banner japh # # ###### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ###### ####### # # ####### # # # # # # # # # # ##### # # # # # % cursive japh / o __. _ /_ /_(_/|_/_)_/ /_ / / -' ' Write a program to do "optical" character recognition of ASCII-Art text. Given an input string provided on STDIN print the text represented by the ASCII-art to STDOUT. There are three milestones for this puzzle. 1) Process any output produced by banner(1) and print the result to STDOUT. Your program should obviously print "JAPH" or "japh" at your discretion, if given the output from banner above; but not "jAph". If you do not have banner(1) or your banner prints vertically instead of horizontally use the banner font for FIGlet. Both the font and FIGlet itself are available at http://figlet.org/ OR ftp://pthbb.org/mirror-mirror/figlet/ Instead, you could also use one of the many web interfaces for generating FIGlet output such as http://wfiglet.handalak.com/ For the next two milestones you need to download some FIGlet fonts available at ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/fonts/contributed.tar.gz OR ftp://pthbb.org/mirror-mirror/figlet/fonts/contributed.tar.gz The FIGlet font file format is rather intuitive but described at length in the FIGlet man page widely available online including http://www.redstone.army.mil/documents/figlet-2.1.1.man.html A tarball with a special issue of the Text::FIGlet module is available at ftp://pthbb.org/pub/misc/qotw.tgz It includes perl versions bof figlet and banner, and the figlet man page 2) Process any output produced by FIGlet with the basic and drpepper fonts. Your output should be as before. In addition to the text to process from STDIN you must accept an argument -f= specifying the path to the font the input was created with. % figlet -f basic -A basic d88b .d8b. d8888b. db db `8P' d8' `8b 88 `8D 88 88 88 88ooo88 88oodD' 88ooo88 88 88~~~88 88~~~ 88~~~88 db. 88 88 88 88 88 88 Y8888P YP YP 88 YP YP % !! | yourprogram.pl -f=figlib/basic.flf JAPH % figlet -f drpepper -A japh _ _ <_> ___ ___ | |_ | |<_> || . \| . | | |<___|| _/|_|_| <__' |_| % !! | yourprogram.pl -f=figlib/drpepper.flf japh 3) Process any output produced by FIGlet with the argument -m-1 and a font from the library listed above. You should accept an argument -d= which specifies the location of the font library. Programatically determine the font used to render the provided input and process accordingly. Your output should be as before with the name of the font chosen printed to STDERR before the results are printed to STDOUT. / # #/ ### ## # ## ## ### /### /### ## /## ### / ### / / ### / ## / ### ## / ###/ / ###/ ##/ ### / ## ## ## ## ## ## / ## ## ## ## ## ## ### ## ## ## ## ## ## ### ## ## ## ## ## ## ### ## /# ## ## ## ## ### ####/ ## ####### ## ## ## ### ## ###### ## ## ## ## / / ## / / ## / / ## / PS> For the interminably curious to see why the condition of -m-1 is imposed compare the output of the font slscript with and wihtout it.