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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| c61c18b5 | 3 | .\" |
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4 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted |
| 5 | .\" provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are | |
| 6 | .\" duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, | |
| 7 | .\" advertising materials, and other materials related to such | |
| 8 | .\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed | |
| 9 | .\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the | |
| 10 | .\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived | |
| 11 | .\" from this software without specific prior written permission. | |
| 12 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR | |
| 13 | .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED | |
| 14 | .\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
| 15 | .\" | |
| 16 | .\" @(#)banner.6 6.3 (Berkeley) %G% | |
| c61c18b5 | 17 | .\" |
| d0eb9fc1 | 18 | .TH BANNER 6 "" |
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19 | .UC |
| 20 | .SH NAME | |
| 21 | banner \- print large banner on printer | |
| 22 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 23 | .B /usr/games/banner | |
| 24 | [ | |
| 25 | .BI \-w n | |
| 26 | ] | |
| 27 | message ... | |
| 28 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 29 | .I Banner | |
| 30 | prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output. | |
| 31 | If the message is omitted, it prompts for and | |
| 8bd8df82 | 32 | reads one line of its standard input. If |
| c61c18b5 | 33 | .B \-w |
| 8bd8df82 | 34 | is given, the output is scrunched down from a width of 132 to |
| c61c18b5 | 35 | .I n , |
| 8bd8df82 | 36 | suitable for a narrow terminal. If |
| c61c18b5 | 37 | .I n |
| 8bd8df82 | 38 | is omitted, it defaults to 80. |
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39 | .PP |
| 40 | The output should be printed on a hard-copy device, up to 132 columns wide, | |
| 6bc80c78 AH |
41 | with no breaks between the pages. The volume is great enough that you |
| 42 | may want | |
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43 | a printer or a fast hardcopy terminal, but if you are patient, a |
| 44 | decwriter or other 300 baud terminal will do. | |
| 45 | .SH BUGS | |
| 46 | Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \\, | |
| 47 | ^, _, {, }, |, and ~. Also, the characters ", ', and & are funny | |
| 48 | looking (but in a useful way.) | |
| 49 | .PP | |
| 50 | The | |
| 51 | .B \-w | |
| 52 | option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns. | |
| 53 | The smaller it gets, the grainier the output. | |
| 54 | Sometimes it runs letters together. | |
| 55 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 56 | Mark Horton |