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