printerbanner
print large banner on printer
Synopsis
printerbanner
[-d] [-t]
[-w width] message ...
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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.
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.
Messages are
limited to 1024 characters in length.
This program is
called just banner on FreeBSD.
BSD
January 26, 2005 BSD
authors
Mark Horton