BANNER(6) MachTen Programmer’s Manual BANNER(6)

NAME
banner - print large banner on printer

SYNOPSIS
/usr/games/banner [ -wn ] 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 , suit-
able for a narrow terminal. If n is omitted, it defaults
to 80.

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
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.

AUTHOR
Mark Horton

MachTen June 6, 1993 1