.TH sysvbanner 1 "June 30, 2012"

.LO 1

.SH NAME
.B sysvbanner
\- display an ASCII art banner text

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sysvbanner
.I [message]

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B sysvbanner
takes a string as argument and outputs it as a large ASCII art banner text. It
aims to be compatible with the UNIX System V
.B banner
program.

.SH HISTORY
This implementation of
.B banner
was posted on the comp.sources.misc newsgroup in early july 1988. The motivation
behind this version of
.B banner
was that the BSD
.B banner
program works quite differently.
.PP
The
.B banner
program appeared in UNIX System V. One of its original uses was to create
highly visible separator pages for print jobs.

.SH COPYRIGHT
This implementation of
.B sysvbanner
is in the public domain.

.SH AUTHORS
Brian Wallis
.I <brw@jim.odr.oz>
wrote the
.I sysvbanner
program.

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR banner (1)
.BR bban (1)
.BR figlet (1)
.BR ascii (7)