1630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993, 1995 2630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" 4630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" are met: 7630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12fbbd9655SWarner Losh.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 13630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" without specific prior written permission. 15630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" 16630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" 281b659bfeSJoerg Wunsch.\" From: @(#)banner.6 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/29/95 29c3aac50fSPeter Wemm.\" $FreeBSD$ 30630d2a93SBruce Evans.\" 31*1d733bbcSGordon Bergling.Dd May 26, 2020 32630d2a93SBruce Evans.Dt BANNER 6 33630d2a93SBruce Evans.Os 34630d2a93SBruce Evans.Sh NAME 35630d2a93SBruce Evans.Nm banner 36630d2a93SBruce Evans.Nd print large banner on printer 37630d2a93SBruce Evans.Sh SYNOPSIS 388fe908efSRuslan Ermilov.Nm 39eb257e6eSPhilippe Charnier.Op Fl d 40eb257e6eSPhilippe Charnier.Op Fl t 41eb257e6eSPhilippe Charnier.Op Fl w Ar width 42630d2a93SBruce Evans.Ar message ... 43630d2a93SBruce Evans.Sh DESCRIPTION 44630d2a93SBruce Evans.Nm Banner 45630d2a93SBruce Evansprints a large, high quality banner on the standard output. 46630d2a93SBruce EvansIf the message is omitted, it prompts for and reads one line of its 47630d2a93SBruce Evansstandard input. 48630d2a93SBruce Evans.Pp 49630d2a93SBruce EvansThe output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width, 50630d2a93SBruce Evanswith no breaks between the pages. 51eb257e6eSPhilippe Charnier.Pp 52eb257e6eSPhilippe CharnierThe following options are available: 53eb257e6eSPhilippe Charnier.Bl -tag -width indent 54eb257e6eSPhilippe Charnier.It Fl d 55eb257e6eSPhilippe CharnierEnable debug. 56eb257e6eSPhilippe Charnier.It Fl t 57eb257e6eSPhilippe CharnierEnable trace. 58eb257e6eSPhilippe Charnier.It Fl w Ar width 59eb257e6eSPhilippe CharnierChange the output from a width of 132 to 60eb257e6eSPhilippe Charnier.Ar width , 61eb257e6eSPhilippe Charniersuitable for a narrow terminal. 62eb257e6eSPhilippe Charnier.El 63*1d733bbcSGordon Bergling.Sh HISTORY 64*1d733bbcSGordon BerglingThe 65*1d733bbcSGordon Bergling.Nm 66*1d733bbcSGordon Berglingutility first appeared in 67*1d733bbcSGordon Bergling.Bx 4.4 . 686c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Sh AUTHORS 696c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.An Mark Horton 70630d2a93SBruce Evans.Sh BUGS 71eb257e6eSPhilippe CharnierSeveral 72eb257e6eSPhilippe Charnier.Tn ASCII 73eb257e6eSPhilippe Charniercharacters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \\, 74630d2a93SBruce Evans^, _, {, }, |, and ~. 75630d2a93SBruce EvansAlso, the characters ", ', and & are funny looking (but in a useful way.) 76630d2a93SBruce Evans.Pp 77630d2a93SBruce EvansThe 78630d2a93SBruce Evans.Fl w 79630d2a93SBruce Evansoption is implemented by skipping some rows and columns. 80630d2a93SBruce EvansThe smaller it gets, the grainier the output. 81630d2a93SBruce EvansSometimes it runs letters together. 82a7a223c3STim J. Robbins.Pp 83a7a223c3STim J. RobbinsMessages are limited to 1024 characters in length. 84