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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
                      2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
                      3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)banner.6    6.2 (Berkeley) 5/6/86
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH BANNER 6 "May 6, 1986"
                      8: .UC
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: banner \- print large banner on printer
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B /usr/games/banner
                     13: [
                     14: .BI \-w n
                     15: ]
                     16: message ...
                     17: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     18: .I Banner
                     19: prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output.
                     20: If the message is omitted, it prompts for and
                     21: reads one line of its standard input.  If
                     22: .B \-w
                     23: is given, the output is scrunched down from a width of 132 to
                     24: .I n ,
                     25: suitable for a narrow terminal.  If
                     26: .I n
                     27: is omitted, it defaults to 80.
                     28: .PP
                     29: The output should be printed on a hard-copy device, up to 132 columns wide,
                     30: with no breaks between the pages. The volume is great enough that you 
                     31: may want
                     32: a printer or a fast hardcopy terminal, but if you are patient, a
                     33: decwriter or other 300 baud terminal will do.
                     34: .SH BUGS
                     35: Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \\,
                     36: ^, _, {, }, |, and ~.  Also, the characters ", ', and & are funny
                     37: looking (but in a useful way.)
                     38: .PP
                     39: The
                     40: .B \-w
                     41: option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns.
                     42: The smaller it gets, the grainier the output.
                     43: Sometimes it runs letters together.
                     44: .SH AUTHOR
                     45: Mark Horton

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