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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Remember the old banner?
Message-ID: <1993May4.064036.26142@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
References: <1993Apr26.171737.352@ziff.com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 06:40:36 GMT
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In article <1993Apr26.171737.352@ziff.com>, Scott Bronson <bronson@soda.berkeley.edu> writes:
|> Does anyone remember the OLD banner? The one that prints its characters
|> horizontally? I really really need the source for it so I can port it
|> to a non-Unix environment. Unfortunately, everywhere I have checked
|> has only the sources to the new banner that prints gigantic characters
|> vertically.
|>
|> ######
|> # # ## # # # # ###### #####
|> # # # # ## # ## # # # #
|> ###### # # # # # # # # ##### # #
|> # # ###### # # # # # # # #####
|> # # # # # ## # ## # # #
|> ###### # # # # # # ###### # #
|>
|> ^^ I want this ^^
|>
|> ### ##
|> ### ## ###
|> ############################# ######
|> ############################# ########
|> ############################# ######
|> ############################# ###
|> ###
|>
|> ^^ Not this. ^^
|>
|> Thanks so much for any help that you would be able to offer!
|>
|> - Scott
I think the original banner was AT&T copyrighted. But there is the code
to print large characters available in the Berkeley lpd daemon, because
it can print a 'banner page'. Try to locate the source of 'lpd', for
instance from NET/2, or in the 386bsd source tree in /usr/src/usr.sbin/lpr/lpd
in files 'printjob.c' and 'lpdchar.c'. The main routine which accomplishes
printing of this is 'scan_out'.
You have to remove lot of code which does not belong to it, of course, to
get a working 'banner'.
Hope that helps
Holger
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