Re: Move banner to games
On 10/7/10, army.of.root army.of.r...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10\10\02 18:48, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 10/2/10, Brandon Goochjamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Paul B Maholone...@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. have a nice day :) You have figlet and toilet with other sundry amusements in ports. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Move banner to games
On 10\10\02 18:48, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 10/2/10, Brandon Goochjamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Paul B Maholone...@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. have a nice day :) ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Move banner to games
In message 4cadc453.7010...@googlemail.com, army.of.root writes: On 10\10\02 18:48, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 10/2/10, Brandon Goochjamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Paul B Maholone...@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. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert cy.schub...@komquats.com FreeBSD UNIX: c...@freebsd.org Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org e**(i*pi)+1=0 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Move banner to games
In message 4cadc453.7010...@googlemail.com, army.of.root writes: On 10\10\02 18:48, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 10/2/10, Brandon Goochjamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Paul B Maholone...@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 :-) danny ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Move banner to games
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:49:43 +0200 From: Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org In message 4cadc453.7010...@googlemail.com, army.of.root writes: On 10\10\02 18:48, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 10/2/10, Brandon Goochjamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Paul B Maholone...@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. :-) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Move banner to games
In message 20101007154058.e68d71c...@ptavv.es.net, Kevin Oberman writes: Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:49:43 +0200 From: Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org In message 4cadc453.7010...@googlemail.com, army.of.root writes: On 10\10\02 18:48, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 10/2/10, Brandon Goochjamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Paul B Maholone...@gmail.com wrot e: 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 th e folks at my university who manage the line printers have never let m e 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 fee d 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 purpos e today however with the graphical tools we have today it's a little archai c. 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 lo ng 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. :-) I can recall my first exposure to ASCII art. I was 17 in Computing Science class in high school. A friend had brought in some artwork his brother had printed on the mainframe at the University of Alberta. The source was a Fortran program with a huge number of punched cards as input. It certainly wouldn't be accepted anywhere here either. What I found quite intriguing was the ASCII art produced by arcane single line APL programs. You could pack a lot of function into a very few bytes of code. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert cy.schub...@komquats.com FreeBSD UNIX: c...@freebsd.org Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org e**(i*pi)+1=0 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Move banner to games
Hi, I see no point to have it in usr/bin. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Move banner to games
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I see no point to have it in usr/bin. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Consider that it could be used for system tasks , like print jobs. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Move banner to games
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@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 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Move banner to games
On 10/2/10, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@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. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
