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.\" @(#)banner.1v 1.1 94/10/31 SMI; from S5R2 6.2 9/2/83
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.TH BANNER 1V "24 September 1987"
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.SH NAME
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banner \- display a string in large letters
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B /usr/5bin/banner
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.I strings
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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This command is available with the
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.I System V
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software installation option. Refer to
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.TX INSTALL
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for information on how to install optional software.
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.IX banner "make posters" "\fLbanner\fP" ""
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.IX "System V commands" "\fLbanner\fR"
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.LP
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.B banner
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prints its arguments (each up to 10 characters long)
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in large letters on the standard output.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR echo (1V)
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.SH BUGS
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.LP
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When
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.B banner
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is used with characters from the top half of the
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Latin-1 character set
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(see
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.BR iso_8859_1 (7)),
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each character is mapped to a best approximation for
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that character based on the available
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.SM ASCII
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character shapes (for example, diacritical marks are removed).
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