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From: frank@martha.utcc.utk.edu (frank segner (phrank))
Subject: Re: Remember the old banner?
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bronson@soda.berkeley.edu (Scott Bronson) 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 ^^
: 

hmm, there was a posting of a banner collection named 'banners'.
check comp.sources.unix: v26i109 - v26i113; this would be version 1.0,
there might be also a version 1.1 ...  (ask archie ?!)

so long,
            frank

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