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.\" $FreeBSD$ 30.\" 31.Dd June 21, 2021 32.Dt BANNER 6 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm banner 36.Nd print large banner on printer 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl d 40.Op Fl t 41.Op Fl w Ar width 42.Ar message ... 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44.Nm Banner 45prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output. 46If the message is omitted, it prompts for and reads one line of its 47standard input. 48.Pp 49The output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width, 50with no breaks between the pages. 51.Pp 52The following options are available: 53.Bl -tag -width indent 54.It Fl d 55Enable debug. 56.It Fl t 57Enable trace. 58.It Fl w Ar width 59Change the output from a width of 132 to 60.Ar width , 61suitable for a narrow terminal. 62.El 63.Sh HISTORY 64The 65.Nm 66utility first appeared in 67.At 6 . 68.Sh AUTHORS 69.An Mark Horton 70.Sh BUGS 71Several 72.Tn ASCII 73characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \\, 74^, _, {, }, |, and ~. 75Also, the characters ", ', and & are funny looking (but in a useful way.) 76.Pp 77The 78.Fl w 79option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns. 80The smaller it gets, the grainier the output. 81Sometimes it runs letters together. 82.Pp 83Messages are limited to 1024 characters in length. 84