Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:47:41 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <20010416184741.O27477@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104161235220.11039-101000@aphex.newgold.net>; from jmallett@newgold.net on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:40:24PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104161235220.11039-101000@aphex.newgold.net>
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> I was bored last night, and wrote a script which printed stuff out to my
> screen using the banner(1) command in OpenBSD. I sent it to my friend this
> morning (who was on FreeBSD) and he pointed out to me that FreeBSD didn't
> have similar functionality (8x8 characters printed horizontally), so I
> added the banner(1) code to banner(6) from -CURRENT along with a '-h' flag
> for 'horizontal', I'm not sure if this is something people would want
> added, etc., so I'm posting here cause it isn't really a necessary change,
> just some extra, unimportant (in the grand scheme of
> things) functionality. A gzipped patch is attached, and can be applied
> something like:
>
> cp banner.patch.gz /usr/src/usr.bin
> cd /usr/src/usr.bin
> gunzip banner.patch.gz
> patch -p1 < banner.patch
> rm banner.patch
> cd banner
> make
> make install
>
> I also added a (very vague) line about it to the banner(6) manpage.
>
> Thoughts?
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/usr/ports/misc/figlet
(it can do the 8x8 horizontal characters too, and the web page has
lots of nice additional fonts too.
R
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