PRINTERBANNER
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NAME
printerbanner
- print large banner on printer
SYNOPSIS
[-
d
]
[-
t
]
[-
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.
The output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width,
with no breaks between the pages.
The following options are available:
- -d
-
Enable debug.
- -t
-
Enable trace.
- -w width
-
Change the output from a width of 132 to
width
suitable for a narrow terminal.
AUTHORS
An Mark Horton
BUGS
Several
ASCII
characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \,
^, _, {, }, |, and ~. The same holds for all non
ASCII
characters.
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.
Messages are limited to 1024 characters in length.
This program is called just banner on FreeBSD.