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ALLIANCEBANNER(3) | MBK UTILITY FUNCTIONS | ALLIANCEBANNER(3) |
NAME¶
alliancebanner - display the standardized Alliance bannerORIGIN¶
This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM developed by the ASIM team at LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France.SYNOPSYS¶
#include "mut.h" void alliancebanner(tool, tv, comment, date, av) char ∗tool, ∗tv, ∗comment, ∗date, ∗av;
PARAMETERS¶
- tool
- Name of the tool. This is what will be displayed as banner.
- tv
- Tool version.
- comment
- Indicates the tool's usefulness.
- date
- Copyright dates.
- av
- Alliance version.
DESCRIPTION¶
alliancebanner ouputs on stdout a standardized banner with the name of the tool in large letters, and a cartouche containing some informations about the Alliance CAD system. This function is to be used by all the Alliance tools, and expect a display 80 columns wide.EXAMPLE¶
#include "ba315n.h" #define nfloptitle(name) \ alliancebanner("nFloP", VERSION,\ "not a FloorPlan router", "92, 93",\ ALLIANCE_VERSION)
SEE ALSO¶
alliance(1).DIAGNOSTICS¶
alliancebanner: Error: Resulting size bigger than 80 columns not allowedThe tool argument must be such that its
resulting size isn't wider that 80 culumns. This means, since the character
set is proportional, that the longest name to be output is about 8 characters
long.
alliancebanner: Error: Character out of [0-9A-Za-z] range
The tool parameter has a non allowed
character in it. For simplicity purposes, only numbers and letters are
accepted.
BUG REPORT¶
This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory.October 1, 1997 | ASIM/LIP6 |