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. Greetz, -- _,-'/-'/ , - . '-. ,- .. ' - ` : -' - . . __,-; ,'( '/ _ - Herman Hiddema aka Shimrod ` \. `-.__`-._`:_,-._ _ ' . ' ' - . shi...@fmf.ml.org ' ` ` : `:-._,------' ` _,`--` -: `_ , ` ,' : http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/ , hh `---..__,,--' ` -'. -' .` . _ - . : -- _, `- .. - '
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