Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:00:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104161259120.10308-100000@aphex.newgold.net> In-Reply-To: <20010416184741.O27477@lpt.ens.fr>
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Ahhh... Didn't think of figlet.
In any case, I'm a moron and sent a bad patch (forgot to gzip it again
after I removed a Debugging line, and fixed something in the manpage),
despite the fact I'm now aware it's totally useless, I can send it to
anyone who wants it.
/joseph
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<josephm> Crystal Pepsi: sure it caused cancer,
but it was leet.
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > 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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