From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 19:44:37 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 F16FA106566C for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 19:44:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@komquats.com) Received: from idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B905D8FC14 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 19:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pd3ml3so-ssvc.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.141.149]) by pd2mo1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 07 Oct 2010 13:44:36 -0600 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.1 cv=uT3SUsFrUxSLMLkvWEyF5PJ45gYvcyNzEdQWRoVmi+I= c=1 sm=1 a=wAGQQ9Az6v0A:10 a=BLceEmwcHowA:10 a=xA7i7079zcQA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=+J+gTUrb/Bhkr9chPx4Sww==:17 a=vtXoPY2jAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=mK_AVkanAAAA:8 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=BWvPGDcYAAAA:8 a=_PnGQ5lAVYZWvhehhtEA:9 a=TkFAV2LH_vQ5mFR8sI0A:7 a=0ET0_2HzzVNTkR8VDQvAZGmq4vEA:4 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=9xyTavCNlvEA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=V7tsTZBp22UA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Received: from unknown (HELO spqr.komquats.com) ([24.68.75.245]) by pd3ml3so-dmz.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 07 Oct 2010 13:44:35 -0600 Received: from cwsys.cwsent.com (cwsys [10.1.1.1]) by spqr.komquats.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADCC46ECB; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o97JiXHX059273; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@komquats.com) Message-Id: <201010071944.o97JiXHX059273@cwsys.cwsent.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 From: Cy Schubert X-os: FreeBSD X-Sender: cy@cwsent.com X-URL: http://www.komquats.com/ To: "Kevin Oberman" In-Reply-To: Message from "Kevin Oberman" of "Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:40:58 PDT." <20101007154058.E68D71CC41@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:44:33 -0700 Sender: Cy.Schubert@komquats.com Cc: Brandon Gooch , "army.of.root" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Move banner to games X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Cy Schubert 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 19:44:37 -0000 In message <20101007154058.E68D71CC41@ptavv.es.net>, "Kevin Oberman" writes: > > Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:49:43 +0200 > > From: Daniel Braniss > > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > > > > 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 wrot > e: > > > > >>> 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 th > e > > > > >> folks at my university who manage the line printers have never let m > e > > > > >> 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 fee > d > > > 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 purpos > e > > > today however with the graphical tools we have today it's a little archai > c. > > > 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 lo > ng > > precision :-) > > I'm so sorry. > > I'm more prone to remember the ASCII rendering of the artwork of rather > long images from a popular magazine which would certainly (and properly) > be unacceptble in the workplace today. :-) I can recall my first exposure to ASCII art. I was 17 in Computing Science class in high school. A friend had brought in some artwork his brother had printed on the mainframe at the University of Alberta. The source was a Fortran program with a huge number of punched cards as input. It certainly wouldn't be accepted anywhere here either. What I found quite intriguing was the ASCII art produced by arcane single line APL programs. You could pack a lot of function into a very few bytes of code. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert FreeBSD UNIX: Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org e**(i*pi)+1=0