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Re: ASCII banners...
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Ze'ev Maor wrote:
>
> > I remember stumbling upon an ascii banner generator for linux some time
> > ago, (possibly in a debian dist), but I don't remember the name. Does
> > anyone know of the existence of such a tool??
>
> On Debian 2.0 I did man benner and:
> $ man banner
>
> BANNER(1) User's Reference Manual BANNER(1)
>
> NAME
> banner - print large banner
>
> SYNOPSIS
> banner text
>
> DESCRIPTION
> banner prints out the first 10 characters of text in large
> letters.
>
> SEE ALSO
> banner(6).
>
> Debian February 4, 1997 1
>
> So such a tool does exist.
The banner is printed in Landscape mode and can't be used as a title. I've
hacked banner to do Portrait mode once. I'll try to get it when I have
time and post it here.
Peter