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Re: ASCII banners...
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 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.
>
Landscape was the original idea. It was designed for dot-matrix printers
:)
Shachar.