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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| 6bc80c78 | 5 | .\" @(#)banner.6 6.2 (Berkeley) %G% |
| c61c18b5 | 6 | .\" |
| d0eb9fc1 | 7 | .TH BANNER 6 "" |
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8 | .UC |
| 9 | .SH NAME | |
| 10 | banner \- print large banner on printer | |
| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 12 | .B /usr/games/banner | |
| 13 | [ | |
| 14 | .BI \-w n | |
| 15 | ] | |
| 16 | message ... | |
| 17 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 18 | .I Banner | |
| 19 | prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output. | |
| 20 | If the message is omitted, it prompts for and | |
| 8bd8df82 | 21 | reads one line of its standard input. If |
| c61c18b5 | 22 | .B \-w |
| 8bd8df82 | 23 | is given, the output is scrunched down from a width of 132 to |
| c61c18b5 | 24 | .I n , |
| 8bd8df82 | 25 | suitable for a narrow terminal. If |
| c61c18b5 | 26 | .I n |
| 8bd8df82 | 27 | is omitted, it defaults to 80. |
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28 | .PP |
| 29 | The output should be printed on a hard-copy device, up to 132 columns wide, | |
| 6bc80c78 AH |
30 | with no breaks between the pages. The volume is great enough that you |
| 31 | may want | |
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32 | a printer or a fast hardcopy terminal, but if you are patient, a |
| 33 | decwriter or other 300 baud terminal will do. | |
| 34 | .SH BUGS | |
| 35 | Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \\, | |
| 36 | ^, _, {, }, |, and ~. Also, the characters ", ', and & are funny | |
| 37 | looking (but in a useful way.) | |
| 38 | .PP | |
| 39 | The | |
| 40 | .B \-w | |
| 41 | option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns. | |
| 42 | The smaller it gets, the grainier the output. | |
| 43 | Sometimes it runs letters together. | |
| 44 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 45 | Mark Horton |