From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 15:14:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D12F0106572B for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:14:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from kabab.cs.huji.ac.il (kabab.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EAC8FC22 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:14:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by kabab.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1P3rmx-000Gvv-Rw; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:49:44 +0200 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Cy Schubert In-reply-to: <201010071424.o97EO4dJ028760@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <201010071424.o97EO4dJ028760@cwsys.cwsent.com> Comments: In-reply-to Cy Schubert message dated "Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:24:04 -0700." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:49:43 +0200 From: Daniel Braniss Message-ID: Cc: "army.of.root" , Brandon Gooch , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Move banner to games X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:14:55 -0000 > In message <4CADC453.7010404@googlemail.com>, "army.of.root" writes: > > On 10\10\02 18:48, Paul B Mahol wrote: > > > On 10/2/10, Brandon Gooch wrote: > > >> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I see no point to have it in usr/bin. > > >> > > >> Cool! This is the first time I've heard of this program! How come the > > >> folks at my university who manage the line printers have never let me > > >> on to this?! > > >> > > >> Ahh -- wait a sec -- I'm beginning to see your point about the whole > > >> "move it to games thing"... > > >> > > >> -Brandon aka "The Green Bar Bandit" > > >> > > > > > > NetBSD and OpenBSD have this version in games and horizontal version > > > of banner in usr/bin. > > > > > > I see no point to have this program(s) in base at all. > > > > > > I will just stop here. > > > > Hi, > > > > A horizontal version of banner could be nice for motd etc. > > > > I like banner. > > It makes me smile and think that FreeBSD is a cosy place to be. > > It's been in the base for decades. People used it to print banners on > reports, before laser and ink jet printers were around, when tractor feed > printers ruled. Banner was more than just a game. People used it for > production work. I suppose you could still use it for its intended purpose > today however with the graphical tools we have today it's a little archaic. > Having said that, it doesn't take up a lot of space and should probably > remain where it is. > > BTW, I'm of the age where I did use it and tools like it (on the IBM > mainframe) for real work. ah memories, I had the walls of my office covered with pi with some very long precision :-) danny