banner
Hurricane Electric Internet Services
NAME
banner - print large banner on printer
SYNOPSIS
/usr/games/banner [ -wn ] message ...
DESCRIPTION
Banner prints a large, high quality banner on the standard
output. If the message is omitted, it prompts for and
reads one line of its standard input. If -w is given, the
output is scrunched down from a width of 132 to n , suit-
able for a narrow terminal. If n is omitted, it defaults
to 80.
The output should be printed on a hard-copy device, up to
132 columns wide, with no breaks between the pages. The
volume is great enough that you may want a printer or a
fast hardcopy terminal, but if you are patient, a
decwriter or other 300 baud terminal will do.
BUGS
Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [,
], \, ^, _, {, }, |, and ~. Also, the characters ", ',
and & are funny looking (but in a useful way.)
The -w option is implemented by skipping some rows and
columns. The smaller it gets, the grainier the output.
Sometimes it runs letters together.
AUTHOR
Mark Horton
Hurricane Electric Internet Services
Copyright (C) 1998
Hurricane Electric.
All Rights Reserved.