Re: My new sig

Shimrod wrote:
> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
[ 8< ]
> > How I made the picture? I used a program called "banner" to make the big
> 
> banner? Obviously not /bin/banner I suppose.
> 

The program in question is found at /usr/local/games/ on this system...
It may be the same, or it may be different...

sister~>ls -l /usr/local/games/banner 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 bin         24576 Oct 14  1994 /usr/local/games/banner*
sister~>man banner

BANNER(1V)               USER COMMANDS                 BANNER(1V)

NAME
     banner - display a string in large letters

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/5bin/banner strings

AVAILABILITY
     This command is available with the System V software instal-
     lation  option.   Refer to Installing SunOS 4.1 for informa-
     tion on how to install optional software.

DESCRIPTION
     banner prints its arguments (each up to 10 characters  long)
     in large letters on the standard output.

SEE ALSO
     echo(1V)

BUGS
     When banner is used with characters from the top half of the
     Latin-1 character set (see iso_8859_1(7)), each character is
     mapped to a best approximation for that character  based  on
     the available ASCII character shapes (for example, diacriti-
     cal marks are removed).

Sun Release 4.1  Last change: 24 September 1987                 1

sister~>

> > [ 8< ] Since I was still _very_ bored I
> > spent the rest of that night (I think it was night) "filling in the blue
> 
> The rest of the night? Boy, you sure were bored. (but you mentioned that
> already) So bored that you didn't even know whether it was night or day :)
> 

I don't remember now exactly what time of the day it was when I made
that sig. And "the rest of the night" indicates a part of the night, a
part which might have started at five in the morning and ended an hour
later... (I really don't remember the exact details)

> > parts" and turning the background into a Swedish flag... Yes, the hard
> > way! (as you can probably see if you look very closely at the pattern
> > and find all the misses I must have made).
> >
> 
> Don't tell me you just sat there, alternately typing '.' and ' ', surely
> you must have used cut and paste? Couldn't you use some emacs feature to
> do it for you? I tried using mousedraw, but the pattern doesn't lend
> itself for that.

I tried some "replace all", but I got lots of little dots where I didn't
want any, and then I tried to use "picture mode" and ended up with some
*serious* tab damage... so yes, in the end I just sat there doing
"backspace, dot, right, right, backspace, dot, right, right, back...".
Why didn't I use "replace"? Because I wanted the dots to look like this:

. . . . . 
 . . . . 
. . . . . 
 . . . . 

and not like this:

. . . . . 
. . . . . 
. . . . . 
. . . . . 

(see the difference?)

> Oh, btw, I checked, I couldn't find one single mis!
> 
> Oh well, now all you have to do is fill the holes where you can look
> trough the pictures (like between his arms and his body)
> 

The second sentence shows an example of how wrong the first sentence
is...  :D


-- 
              _                                         _
  __   ___.--'_`.  __   __                _           .'_`--.___   __
 ( _`.'. -   'o` ) \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _  ( 'o`   - .`.'_ )
 _\.'_'      _.-'   \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` |  `-._      `_`./_
( \`. )    //\`      \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_|    '/\\    ( .'/ )
 \_`-'`---'\\__,                                       ,__//`---'`-'_/
  \`        `-\    uggc://jjj.yhqq.yhgu.fr/hfref/ix/    /-'        '/
   ` _____________________ r93...@fz.yhgu.fr ____________________ '
        LIKE MY SIG? GO HERE: http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/

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