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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993 |
2 | .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. | |
c61c18b5 | 3 | .\" |
91cff1e1 | 4 | .\" %sccs.include.redist.man% |
e39c03fe | 5 | .\" |
17e5c814 | 6 | .\" @(#)banner.6 8.1 (Berkeley) %G% |
c61c18b5 | 7 | .\" |
d0eb9fc1 | 8 | .TH BANNER 6 "" |
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9 | .UC |
10 | .SH NAME | |
11 | banner \- print large banner on printer | |
12 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
13 | .B /usr/games/banner | |
14 | [ | |
15 | .BI \-w n | |
16 | ] | |
17 | message ... | |
18 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
19 | .I Banner | |
20 | prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output. | |
21 | If the message is omitted, it prompts for and | |
8bd8df82 | 22 | reads one line of its standard input. If |
c61c18b5 | 23 | .B \-w |
8bd8df82 | 24 | is given, the output is scrunched down from a width of 132 to |
c61c18b5 | 25 | .I n , |
8bd8df82 | 26 | suitable for a narrow terminal. If |
c61c18b5 | 27 | .I n |
8bd8df82 | 28 | is omitted, it defaults to 80. |
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29 | .PP |
30 | The output should be printed on a hard-copy device, up to 132 columns wide, | |
6bc80c78 AH |
31 | with no breaks between the pages. The volume is great enough that you |
32 | may want | |
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33 | a printer or a fast hardcopy terminal, but if you are patient, a |
34 | decwriter or other 300 baud terminal will do. | |
35 | .SH BUGS | |
36 | Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \\, | |
37 | ^, _, {, }, |, and ~. Also, the characters ", ', and & are funny | |
38 | looking (but in a useful way.) | |
39 | .PP | |
40 | The | |
41 | .B \-w | |
42 | option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns. | |
43 | The smaller it gets, the grainier the output. | |
44 | Sometimes it runs letters together. | |
45 | .SH AUTHOR | |
46 | Mark Horton |