ALCBANNER(1)

📦 version 5.1.1-unstable-2025-02, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 ALCBANNER(1) — alliance user commands, bestie

okay so you found alcbanner in the ALLIANCE USER COMMANDS section and you're like "what is this diva doing" — don't worry, she's here to explain everything ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

alcbanner — displays a standardized banner for Alliance tools. that's it. that's her job. she's the aesthetic department 🎀

🦋 ORIGIN 🦋

This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM, developed by the ASIM team at the LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. oui oui, Paris 💖

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

alcbanner tool toolversion purpose copyrightdates

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

alcbanner displays a standardized banner for the Alliance tools on stdout. it's giving "hello, welcome to my tool" energy 👑

fun fact: this is a compiled version of the alliancebanner(2) function. so like, she's the glow-up version of the function, no cap 🫶

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

alcbanner GenPat 3.1 "Procedural GENeration of test PATterns"
1991

will display:


             @@@@ @                        @@@@@@@
           @@    @@                          @@   @@               @
          @@      @                          @@    @@             @@
         @@             @@@@@   @@@ @@@      @@    @@   @@@@      @@
         @@            @     @   @@@   @     @@   @@   @@   @   @@@@@@@@
         @@     @@@@@ @@     @@  @@    @@    @@@@@     @@   @@    @@
         @@     @ @@  @@@@@@@@@  @@    @@    @@          @@@@@    @@
         @@    @  @@  @@         @@    @@    @@        @@   @@    @@
          @@      @@  @@      @  @@    @@    @@       @@    @@    @@
           @@    @@    @@    @@  @@    @@    @@       @@   @@@    @@   @
             @@@@        @@@@   @@@@  @@@@ @@@@@@      @@@@  @@    @@@@

                     Procedural GENeration of test PATterns

                  Alliance CAD System 3.2b,          genpat 3.1
                  Copyright (c) 1991-1997,       ASIM/LIP6/UPMC
                  E-mail        : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr

like?? the ASCII art?? the little wave?? she ate and left absolutely no crumbs 💅💀

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

mbk(1), alliancebanner(3).

💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

The output is centered for an 80 columns screen, so it can be used on most displays easily — and not found at execution time. iykyk 🙈

alliancebanner: Error: Resulting size bigger than 80 columns not allowed The tool argument must be such that its resulting size isn't wider than 80 columns. Since the character set is proportional, this means the longest name to be output is about 8 characters long. so like, keep it cute and short, bestie 😭
alliancebanner: Error: Character out of [0-9A-Za-z] range The tool parameter has a non allowed character in it. For simplicity purposes, only numbers and letters are accepted. no emoji in the tool name, unfortunately — yes i KNOW, tragic 💔

🍓 BUG REPORT 🍓

This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory.

We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. fr fr, they literally want to hear from you 🫶

later bestie — this page was brought to you by the ASIM/LIP6 girlies, dated October 1, 1997, and yes she was that iconic all the way back then too ✨👑🌈

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