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Mark Hill wrote:
> On 2003-06-13, 
>  Rusty <russjunkmail@netscape.net> 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. :)
> 
> 

IIRC, it was a wide format 9pin, but
I really don't remember corectly and
it may have been a wide format daisy
wheel printer.  I threw away all the
printouts a long time ago, so I have
no way of verifying if that is true.

>>banner "Rusty" > prn
>>
>>or something like that.
> 
> 
> Maybe it was
> 
> banner "Rusty" > lpr
> 
> as lpr is the common printing program on Unix/Linux. :)
> 

You're right, I was trying to figure
out the correct characters to use on
that command. I was thinking DOS too
much because that was what I grew up
using. I have installed Redhat Linux
and recently, I installed Mandrake 9
but I often screw it up somehow, and
end up having to reformat the boxen.

Well, two full Ascii text blocks, no
wait, this makes up another, so this
is the third ASCII block.  What fun!