1.\" $NetBSD: banner.6,v 1.17 2010/05/14 19:02:28 joerg Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993, 1995 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)banner.6 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/29/95 31.\" 32.Dd December 14, 2006 33.Dt BANNER 6 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm banner 37.Nd print large banner on printer 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm 40.Op Fl w Ar width 41.Ar message ... 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43.Nm 44prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output. 45If the message is omitted, it prompts for and 46reads one line of its standard input. 47If 48.Fl w 49is given, the output is scrunched down from a width of 132 to 50.Ar width , 51suitable for a narrow terminal. 52For example: 53.Pp 54.Dl "/usr/games/banner -w 80 Hello" 55.Pp 56The output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width, 57with no breaks between the pages. 58.Sh AUTHORS 59.An Mark Horton 60.Sh BUGS 61Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably \*[Lt], \*[Gt], [, ], \e, 62^, _, {, }, |, and ~. Also, the characters ", ', and \*[Am] are funny 63looking (but in a useful way.) 64.Pp 65The 66.Fl w 67option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns. 68The smaller it gets, the grainier the output. 69Sometimes it runs letters together. 70