VERT-BANNER(6)

💖 vert-banner — the games manual glow-up 💖

okay bestie, so this one is vert-banner(6), living in the Games Manual section, and it's literally just here to make you a giant banner. iconic behavior.

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✨ NAME ✨

vert-banner — print large banner on printer 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

vert-banner [-w width] message ...

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so vert-banner prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output. that's the whole vibe. main character energy fr fr.

if the message is omitted, it prompts for and reads one line of its standard input. so like, it'll ask you, no biggie 💅

if -w is given, the output is scrunched down from a width of 132 to width, suitable for a narrow terminal. scrunched!! it's giving tiny but mighty ✨

the output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width, with no breaks between the pages. no cap, no page breaks, just one long slay.

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💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \, ^, _, {, }, |, and ~. so if you use those, rip 😭

also, the characters ", ', and & are funny looking (but in a useful way.) so like, not broken, just quirky 🫶

the -w option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns. the smaller it gets, the grainier the output. sometimes it runs letters together. so, lowkey, the more you shrink it, the more it starts looking like a potato-quality selfie from 2013 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Mark Horton

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and that's the whole page bestie 💖 this Debian version is dated April 29, 1995 and it's the VERT-BANNER(6) page, so go forth and print your giant banner, you absolute legend 🎀✨🌈