BANNER(1)

NAME
banner - print large banner on printer

SYNOPSIS
banner [-w width] [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 , suitable f or a narrow terminal.

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
The following bugs are preserved from the implementation on which this one is based:

•   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.

Any new bugs are as yet unknown.

AUTHOR
The Perl implementation of banner was written by Jonathan Feinberg, jdf@pobox.com.

The C source on which this implementation is based was written by Mark Horton.

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
Because I consider this program to be, in essence, a modification of the BSD version of /usr/games/banner, I am bound to preserve the following copyright notice intact:

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        This product includes software developed by the University of
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