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From: spfind@sgife22.sdrc.com (jeff findley)
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Subject: Re: anyone know about a banner command?
Message-ID: <4742@heimdall.sdrc.com>
Date: 8 Nov 93 13:33:38 GMT
References: <160442@netnews.upenn.edu> <cyberfoxCG4uwI.3ox@netcom.com>
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In article <cyberfoxCG4uwI.3ox@netcom.com>, cyberfox@netcom.com (Keely M. Swenson) writes:
|> In article <160442@netnews.upenn.edu> kellye@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Kelly E) writes:
|> >Does anyone know how to use the banner command?  I've seen a friend use
|> >it , but he refuses to show me how.  Is there a nice person out there
|> >who would be willing to share with me this information?
|> 
|> Kelly, to use the banner command, type a line of text, like this:
|> 
|>      banner "pull my" "finger"
|> 
|> Then hit your return key.  Unix will throw this at you:
|> 
|>  
|>  #####   #    #  #       #               #    #   #   #
|>  #    #  #    #  #       #               ##  ##    # #
|>  #    #  #    #  #       #               # ## #     #
|>  #####   #    #  #       #               #    #     #
|>  #       #    #  #       #               #    #     #
|>  #        ####   ######  ######          #    #     #
|>  
|>  
|>  ######     #    #    #   ####   ######  #####
|>  #          #    ##   #  #    #  #       #    #
|>  #####      #    # #  #  #       #####   #    #
|>  #          #    #  # #  #  ###  #       #####
|>  #          #    #   ##  #    #  #       #   #
|>  #          #    #    #   ####   ######  #    #

Of course, you get much better results with Figlet:

                                                            
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# # # #  #   #      ### # #      #      ##  ### ### ###  #  
##  # #  #   #      ### ###     ###  #  # # # # ##  #    #  
#   ###  ##  ##     # #   #      #   ## # #  ## ### #       
#                       ###     ##          ###          #  


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P     u  u l l  m m m y  y   f  ii n  n g g e e r       
P      uuu l l  m m m  yyy   f  ii n  n ggg ee  r   !!! 
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                      yyy               ggg             

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                              __/ |               __/ |            
                             |___/               |___/             


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| |              ( )_) |             (_)
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                                     /|   |\               /|            
                                     \|   |/               \|            


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                            ____/               |___/             


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|  _/ || | | | | '  \ || | |  _| | ' \/ _` / -_) '_|_|
|_|  \_,_|_|_| |_|_|_\_, | |_| |_|_||_\__, \___|_| (_)
                     |__/             |___/           

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_|  \_,_|_|_|  _|_|_\_, |  _|  _|_| _\__, \___|_|  _)
                    ___/             ____/           


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 / ___/ // / / / /  ' \/ // / / _/ / _ \/ _ `/ -_) __/_/ 
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                      /___/            /___/             


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|  _ \ _   _| | |  _ __ ___  _   _   / _(_)_ __   __ _  ___ _ __| |
| |_) | | | | | | | '_ ` _ \| | | | | |_| | '_ \ / _` |/ _ \ '__| |
|  __/| |_| | | | | | | | | | |_| | |  _| | | | | (_| |  __/ |  |_|
|_|    \__,_|_|_| |_| |_| |_|\__, | |_| |_|_| |_|\__, |\___|_|  (_)
                             |___/               |___/             

Some time last month, an article was posted here about Figlet.
If there is interest, I'm sure the creators of Figlet can tell you 
all how to get it.

     _       __  __   _____ _           _ _            
    | | ___ / _|/ _| |  ___(_)_ __   __| | | ___ _   _ 
 _  | |/ _ \ |_| |_  | |_  | | '_ \ / _` | |/ _ \ | | |
| |_| |  __/  _|  _| |  _| | | | | | (_| | |  __/ |_| |
 \___/ \___|_| |_|   |_|   |_|_| |_|\__,_|_|\___|\__, |
                                                 |___/ 
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