Re: [talk] Re: "I love Alberta Beef" Ascii art.
Mark Hill wrote: > On 2003-06-13, > Rusty <rus...@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!
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