Re: feature-request: add "banner" to coreutils as a standard GNU/Linux utility

[Bob Proulx]

James Youngman wrote:
> Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> > Banner fills an apparent hole in GNU/Linux - that is, that is does
> > not provide a "banner" program itself,
> 
> It's available on the GNU/Linux distribution I happen to use on this machine:
> 
> address@hidden:~$ which banner
> /usr/games/banner
> address@hidden:~$ dpkg -S /usr/games/banner
> bsdmainutils: /usr/games/banner

The *other* banner is the useful one.  /usr/bin/banner in the Debian
"sysvbanner" package.  It is in the public domain.  We use it a lot to
visually tag output to the screen.

I don't find the BSD one very useful, who has continuous tractor feed
paper printers these days?  :-)

Bob