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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