Toys! There are a couple of un*x standbys: fortune, rain and banner. Banner was
to some extent superceded sometime ago by the venerable figlet, a banner on
steroids. Being a fan of ASCII-art I became interested in figlet sometime ago
and eventually decided to have a go at implementing it in perl. So, back in
2000 I released
Text::FIGlet.
Yes indeedy, now you can enjoy the excitement of figlet all from within the
comforts of perl; we might even get a functional/more portable
Acme::Curses::Marquee
out of it. I gave a lightning talk about the module at Boston.PM awhile
you might be interested in:
slides