ABANNER (C) Olov Davidsson 1996


1. Introduction
===============

Recently I started studying at the University of Linköping, Sweden, and there
I had my first contact with UNIX machines. Since UNIX in many ways is similar
to the AmigaDOS I tend to like it a lot more than for example the awful MS-DOS.
One command in UNIX that I like although it's not really good for anything is
the 'banner' command. So I thought, why isn't there a 'banner' program for the
Amiga?
I have just started to learn how to program C so I tried to program this
myself. And here it is... a very simple program that anybody could write but
I think it's fun and hopefully someone else will too.

2. What is ABanner?
===================

ABanner writes a banner consisting of # signs from the arguments you send
with it. Unlike the UNIX version ABanner is able to handle small characters
and the Swedish letters Å, Ä and Ö.

3. Installation
===============

Copy 'banner' to your C: directory. Voilà!

4. Usage
========

ABanner takes arguments and then write each one at a new line. If you want
two ore more words at one line, just put quote signs (") around these words.
If an argument exceeds 12 characters (fits into a Shell window on a 640 pixels
wide screen) ABanner will not print the characters after the 12th character.

Here's some examples:

> banner foo


    ##
   #  #
   #     ###   ###
  ####  #   # #   #
   #    #   # #   #
   #    #   # #   #
   #     ###   ###


> banner AMiGA "foo bar"


  ###  #   #        ###   ###
 #   # ## ##   #   #   # #   #
 #   # ## ##       #     #   #
 ##### # # #  ##   # ### #####
 #   # # # #   #   #   # #   #
 #   # #   #   #   #   # #   #
 #   # #   #  ###   ###  #   #



    ##                    #
   #  #                   #
   #     ###   ###        #      ##
  ####  #   # #   #       ####     #  ####
   #    #   # #   #       #   #  ###  #   #
   #    #   # #   #       #   # #  #  #
   #     ###   ###        ####   ## # #


5. Then what jerk programmed ABanner?
=====================================

I did! Well, I know, it isn't that much programming, but I'm only a beginner,
alright? If you're interested in the C source (although I doubt it) or if you
wanna contact me send an e-mail to:

	t96oloda@und.ida.liu.se

or if you wanna use the snailish way of mailing me:

	Olov Davidsson
	Björnkärrsgatan 9B.22
	S-584 36 Linköping
	SWEDEN