NAME¶
printerbanner —
print large banner on printer
SYNOPSIS¶
printerbanner |
[ -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¶
Mark Horton
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.
