X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,48818f2b9f51e3b6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-14 10:22:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dsl-217-155-199-78.zen.co.UK!not-for-mail From: Mark Hill Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: [talk] Re: "I love Alberta Beef" Ascii art. Date: 14 Jun 2003 17:22:03 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2003-06-14T17-16-46@bubble.markhill.me.uk> References: <2003-06-13T01-55-41@bubble.markhill.me.uk> <3EE937BA.5090108@netscape.net> <2003-06-13T02-44-06@bubble.markhill.me.uk> <3EE94FEB.2070004@netscape.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-217-155-199-78.zen.co.uk (217.155.199.78) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1055611323 19788043 217.155.199.78 (16 [123679]) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4pl2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:23647 On 2003-06-13, Rusty wrote: [snip banner output] > When I visited him at his office, that was one of the things he > did to entertain me, was print a banner off of the Unix system. Cool. :) I think for best results that program has to be used with a daisy-wheel printer where the paper is chained together. :) > banner "Rusty" > prn > > or something like that. Maybe it was banner "Rusty" > lpr as lpr is the common printing program on Unix/Linux. :) -- Mark Hill How do you power off this machine? -- Linus, when upgrading linux.cs.helsinki.fi, and after using the machine for several months