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 -- Joseph Mallett Security Specialist jmallett@newgold.net www.newgold.net irc.newgold.net/#xMach xMach Core Team jmallett@xMach.org www.xMach.org xMach Research Group www.xmrg.com <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? > > __ _ _ _ > / _(_) __ _| | ___| |_ > | |_| |/ _` | |/ _ \ __| > | _| | (_| | | __/ |_ > |_| |_|\__, |_|\___|\__| > |___/ > > > /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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