banner

[Diane Dymesich]

Rich,
I was fooling around with the banner command on my home computer and it acts nothing like it does when I'm on opus.What gives!?

[Robert Lyons]

What I've noticed is that everywhere else I use banner it prints vertically, at 90 degrees if you will. This is so you can print long banners on a printer. Why it prints horizontally on opus I don't know. I have found no command option to control that. I'm not sure if that's the "difference" you were talking about but that's what I see.

[ollie wright]

A while back I did a google search on banner. The gist of what I saw was that banner is not very flexible and there are other programs out there that let you have more choice on the banner output. I don't remember the program names.

[Michael Wicherski]

the one on opus is a program written by (i cant remember his name at the moment, but its a cabrillo staff person)

so it is not the generic banner you would find floating around

hence the difference in behaviours