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BANNER(6) FreeBSD Games Manual BANNER(6) NAME banner - print large banner on printer SYNOPSIS banner [-d] [-t] [-w width] message ... DESCRIPTION Banner prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output. If the message is omitted, it prompts for and reads one line of its standard input. The output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width, with no breaks between the pages. The following options are available: -d Enable debug. -t Enable trace. -w width Change the output from a width of 132 to width, suitable for a narrow terminal. HISTORY The banner utility first appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. AUTHORS Mark Horton BUGS Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \, ^, _, {, }, |, and ~. Also, the characters ", ', and & are funny looking (but in a useful way.) The -w option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns. The smaller it gets, the grainier the output. Sometimes it runs letters together. Messages are limited to 1024 characters in length. FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 June 21, 2021 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11