Annotation of 43BSDReno/usr.bin/banner/banner.6, revision 1.1.1.1

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                     20: .TH BANNER 6 "June 23, 1990"
                     21: .UC
                     22: .SH NAME
                     23: banner \- print large banner on printer
                     24: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     25: .B /usr/games/banner
                     26: [
                     27: .BI \-w n
                     28: ]
                     29: message ...
                     30: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     31: .I Banner
                     32: prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output.
                     33: If the message is omitted, it prompts for and
                     34: reads one line of its standard input.  If
                     35: .B \-w
                     36: is given, the output is scrunched down from a width of 132 to
                     37: .I n ,
                     38: suitable for a narrow terminal.  If
                     39: .I n
                     40: is omitted, it defaults to 80.
                     41: .PP
                     42: The output should be printed on a hard-copy device, up to 132 columns wide,
                     43: with no breaks between the pages. The volume is great enough that you 
                     44: may want
                     45: a printer or a fast hardcopy terminal, but if you are patient, a
                     46: decwriter or other 300 baud terminal will do.
                     47: .SH BUGS
                     48: Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \\,
                     49: ^, _, {, }, |, and ~.  Also, the characters ", ', and & are funny
                     50: looking (but in a useful way.)
                     51: .PP
                     52: The
                     53: .B \-w
                     54: option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns.
                     55: The smaller it gets, the grainier the output.
                     56: Sometimes it runs letters together.
                     57: .SH AUTHOR
                     58: Mark Horton

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