1.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993, 1995 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 13.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14.\" without specific prior written permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" From: @(#)banner.6 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/29/95 29.\" 30.Dd June 21, 2021 31.Dt BANNER 6 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm banner 35.Nd print large banner on printer 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Op Fl d 39.Op Fl t 40.Op Fl w Ar width 41.Ar message ... 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43.Nm Banner 44prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output. 45If the message is omitted, it prompts for and reads one line of its 46standard input. 47.Pp 48The output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width, 49with no breaks between the pages. 50.Pp 51The following options are available: 52.Bl -tag -width indent 53.It Fl d 54Enable debug. 55.It Fl t 56Enable trace. 57.It Fl w Ar width 58Change the output from a width of 132 to 59.Ar width , 60suitable for a narrow terminal. 61.El 62.Sh HISTORY 63The 64.Nm 65utility first appeared in 66.At v6 . 67.Sh AUTHORS 68.An Mark Horton 69.Sh BUGS 70Several 71.Tn ASCII 72characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \\, 73^, _, {, }, |, and ~. 74Also, the characters ", ', and & are funny looking (but in a useful way.) 75.Pp 76The 77.Fl w 78option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns. 79The smaller it gets, the grainier the output. 80Sometimes it runs letters together. 81.Pp 82Messages are limited to 1024 characters in length. 83