1.\" $NetBSD: banner.6,v 1.18 2012/02/26 21:06:59 wiz 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 February 26, 2012 33.Dt BANNER 6 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm banner 37.Nd print large banners 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm 40.Op Fl w Ar width 41.Op Ar message 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43.Nm 44prints a large, high quality banner on standard output. 45If 46.Ar message 47is omitted, one line of standard input is read for it. 48A prompt is written to standard error in case standard input is 49connected to a terminal. 50.Pp 51If 52.Fl w 53is given, the output is scrunched down from a width of 132 (the default) to 54.Ar width , 55suitable for a narrow terminal. 56.Pp 57The output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width, 58with no breaks between the pages. 59.Sh EXIT STATUS 60.Ex -std 61.Sh EXAMPLES 62The following command will print the current date as a banner on 63standard output, using a width of 80: 64.Pp 65.Dl "/usr/games/banner -w 80 `date`" 66.Sh SEE ALSO 67.Xr banner 1 , 68.Xr lpr 1 69.Sh AUTHORS 70.An Mark Horton 71.Sh BUGS 72Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably \*[Lt], \*[Gt], [, ], \e, 73^, _, {, }, |, and ~. Also, the characters ", ', and \*[Am] are funny 74looking (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