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Re: feature-request: add "banner" to coreutils as a standard GNU/Linux u
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: feature-request: add "banner" to coreutils as a standard GNU/Linux utility |
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Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:22:36 -0600 |
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James Youngman wrote:
> Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> > Banner fills an apparent hole in GNU/Linux - that is, that is does
> > not provide a "banner" program itself,
>
> It's available on the GNU/Linux distribution I happen to use on this machine:
>
> address@hidden:~$ which banner
> /usr/games/banner
> address@hidden:~$ dpkg -S /usr/games/banner
> bsdmainutils: /usr/games/banner
The *other* banner is the useful one. /usr/bin/banner in the Debian
"sysvbanner" package. It is in the public domain. We use it a lot to
visually tag output to the screen.
I don't find the BSD one very useful, who has continuous tractor feed
paper printers these days? :-)
Bob