FIST prints an image of a clenched fist (unless suppressed by the -c option), followed by a slogan in block letters, limited to 16 characters per line (“Television is to news as bumper stickers are to philosophy.”—Richard M. Nixon). Options permit you to scale the fist commensurate to the iniquities of the Oppressor (or your printer's paper size, whichever is smaller), select right- or left-handed blows against the Empire, and various other gimmicks which popped into the mind of this humble programmer while watching Ice Station Zebra over and over again and watching his fingernails grow. Oh, wait…wrong megalomaniac. Anyway, here's the latest incarnation of the FIST program. May your banners ever espouse worthy causes, and may those truly worthy be achieved.
This repository maintains the master copies of the FIST source code and the Web tree for the program.
This repository is organised into the following directories.
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webtree: Replica of the Web tree from the Fourmilab site containing all of the HTML documents, and images. These pages contain relative references to style sheets, icons, and other resources on the Fourmilab Web site and will not display properly without modification in other environments.
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src: Source code for the FIST program, written in ANSI C using the Literate Programming methodology. The program and documentation is defined in the CWEB file fist.w. The C source code and TeX documentation are generated automatically from this file. All modifications to the program should be made to the fist.w file and the generated files rebuilt.
