NAME

       printerbanner — print large banner on printer

SYNOPSIS

       printerbanner [-d] [-t] [-w width] message ...

DESCRIPTION

       Banner prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output.  If the message is omitted, it prompts
       for and reads one line of its standard input.

       The output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width, with no breaks between the pages.

       The following options are available:

       -d      Enable debug.

       -t      Enable trace.

       -w width
               Change the output from a width of 132 to width, suitable for a narrow terminal.

AUTHORS

       Mark Horton

BUGS

       Several  ASCII  characters  are  not  defined,  notably  <,  >, [, ], \, ^, _, {, }, |, and ~.  Also, the
       characters ", ', and & are funny looking (but in a useful way.)

       The -w option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns.  The smaller it gets,  the  grainier  the
       output.  Sometimes it runs letters together.

       Messages are limited to 1024 characters in length.

       This program is called just banner on FreeBSD.

Debian                                          January 26, 2005                                PRINTERBANNER(1)