> 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 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. > > > > > > 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"
