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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 17 Apr 1998.
Re: My new sig

Re: My new sig

> > > > > 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*
> >
> > wing1[~](17) : ls -l /bin/banner
> > -r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          12288 Jun 10  1996 /bin/banner
> >
> > Your's is exactly (and when I say exactly I mean exactly) twice as large.
> >
> 
> I have several programs that take up 24576 bytes. I think that it's some
> kind of "standard box" that they put them in...

Now that you mention it, I have several too, both sizes are multiples of
1024, too.

> > > sister~>man banner
> > wing1[~](18) : man banner
> > [let's not lenghten this post needlessly, it's similar to that one]
> >
> > [ 8< ]
> >
> > this manpage says /usr/5bin/banner
> > you said /usr/local/games/banner
> > I have neither (If the 5's a typo in the manpage, I don't have
> > /usr/sbin/banner either (/usr/bin/banner is the same as /bin/banner))
> >
> > :-(   (We don't have a /usr/local/games/ at all)
> >
> 
> But that is just a directory. It's the actual *program* that matters,
> right?

Well, I'd *like* too have a games directory on the system, but playing games
lost me my account once already, so I'm probably better off this way :)

> [ 8< ]
> > > Why didn't I use "replace"? Because I wanted the dots to look like this:
> > >
> > > . . . . .
> > >  . . . .
> > > . . . . .
> > >  . . . .
> >
> > Then just use replace, and then shift every other line (while deleting
> > at the end to make things line up again)
> >
> 
> Mmmmm.... Tried it.... I didn't get that to work very well...  :P

Does :P mean your sticking you tongue out? Was it something I said? :D

> > > and not like this:
> > >
> > > . . . . .
> > > . . . . .
> > > . . . . .
> > > . . . . .
> > >
> > > (see the difference?)
> >
> > I do :-) (My eyesight is quite OK, thank you)
> >
> 
> =]
> 
> > > > 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
> > >
> >
> > :D
> >
> > I didn't consider those misses, I thought you forgot (or had some artistic
> > reason)
> >
> 
> Doesn't "forgot" count as a "miss"?
> 

Uhm, maybe. I meant misses as in forgetting a dot or a space, so you could
be right. 

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