* Where is `banner'? @ 2003-06-01 8:07 Amin 2003-06-01 8:15 ` James Turnbull 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Amin @ 2003-06-01 8:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-newbie Hi, I'm using Red Hat Linux 8.0 and I just noticed --- I don't have `banner', the old Unix tool for creating large characters out of small ones. Anyone have any idea where I can get it? Thanks in advance, Yawar Amin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Where is `banner'? 2003-06-01 8:07 Where is `banner'? Amin @ 2003-06-01 8:15 ` James Turnbull 2003-06-01 9:03 ` Amin 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: James Turnbull @ 2003-06-01 8:15 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Amin, linux-newbie Amin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Red Hat Linux 8.0 and I just noticed --- I don't have > `banner', the old Unix tool for creating large characters out of small > ones. Anyone have any idea where I can get it? Don't know about banner but you can find Figlet here - http://www.figlet.org/ It's pretty much the same functionality. Regards James Turnbull - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Where is `banner'? 2003-06-01 8:15 ` James Turnbull @ 2003-06-01 9:03 ` Amin 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Amin @ 2003-06-01 9:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-newbie On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 18:15:23 +1000, "James Turnbull" wrote: > Don't know about banner but you can find Figlet here - > http://www.figlet.org/ > > It's pretty much the same functionality. > > Regards > > James Turnbull Wow, this is great! And I'd gone and written a `banner.pl' with the Perl Text::Banner module! Just goes to show ... if you can't find the original, don't rewrite it --- find something better! Thanks! Yawar Amin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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