Re: Ironic?

[David Frey <david@eos.lugs.ch>]

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:03:21 -0800 Steve Lamb wrote:
>     Ironic that banner is packages in "bsdmainutils" but is installed
>     in /usr/games.  ;)
Why?
That's intention. The BSD banner is for printouts on line printers, 
where as the sysvbanner (/usr/bin/banner) is for banners like this:

######
#     #  ######  #####      #      ##    #    #
#     #  #       #    #     #     #  #   ##   #
#     #  #####   #####      #    #    #  # #  #
#     #  #       #    #     #    ######  #  # #
#     #  #       #    #     #    #    #  #   ##
######   ######  #####      #    #    #  #    #

Have I misunderstood you?

David (sysvbanner maintainer)
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