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LeoPanthera on April 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fun at the Unix Terminal

For those of a certain age, piping figlet into your local line printer was a fun, if noisy, way to make giant banners.

girishso on April 6, 2017 | [–]

It was "banner" for me!

bclemens on April 6, 2017 | | [–]

ERROR: lp0 on fire

vram22 on April 6, 2017 | [–]

I've seen a 'banner' command in some Unix versions. Often used to print the motd (message of the day) that you got when you logged in, and also by sysadmins to write a banner message to everyone's terminal like "System going down in 10 minutes" etc.

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