Re: Move banner to games

> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:49:43 +0200
> From: Daniel Braniss <danny_at_cs.huji.ac.il>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> 
> > In message <4CADC453.7010404_at_googlemail.com>, "army.of.root" writes:
> > > On 10\10\02 18:48, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> > > > On 10/2/10, Brandon Gooch<jamesbrandongooch_at_gmail.com>  wrote:
> > > >> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Paul B Mahol<onemda_at_gmail.com>  wrote:
> > > >>> Hi,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I see no point to have it in usr/bin.
> > > >>
> > > >> Cool! This is the first time I've heard of this program! How come the
> > > >> folks at my university who manage the line printers have never let me
> > > >> on to this?!
> > > >>
> > > >> Ahh -- wait a sec -- I'm beginning to see your point about the whole
> > > >> "move it to games thing"...
> > > >>
> > > >> -Brandon aka "The Green Bar Bandit"
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > NetBSD and OpenBSD have this version in games and horizontal version
> > > > of banner in usr/bin.
> > > >
> > > > I see no point to have this program(s) in base at all.
> > > >
> > > > I will just stop here.
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > A horizontal version of banner could be nice for motd etc.
> > > 
> > > I like banner.
> > > It makes me smile and think that FreeBSD is a cosy place to be.
> > 
> > It's been in the base for decades. People used it to print banners on 
> > reports, before laser and  ink jet printers were around, when tractor feed 
> > printers ruled. Banner was more than just a game. People used it for 
> > production work. I suppose you could still use it for its intended purpose 
> > today however with the graphical tools we have today it's a little archaic. 
> > Having said that, it doesn't take up a lot of space and should probably 
> > remain where it is.
> > 
> > BTW, I'm of the age where I did use it and tools like it (on the IBM 
> > mainframe) for real work.
> 
> ah memories, I had the walls of my office covered with pi with some very long
> precision :-)

I'm so sorry. 

I'm more prone to remember the ASCII rendering of the artwork of rather
long images from a popular magazine which would certainly (and properly)
be unacceptble in the workplace today. :-)
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