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? __ _ _ _ / _(_) __ _| | ___| |_ | |_| |/ _` | |/ _ \ __| | _| | (_| | | __/ |_ |_| |_|\__, |_|\___|\__| |___/ /usr/ports/misc/figlet (it can do the 8x8 horizontal characters too, and the web page has lots of nice additional fonts too. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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