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Programs and documentation (C) 1983 Userview Corporation.
BANNER
This program prints block letters on the display or printer
with several options.
INVOKING THE PROGRAM: From DOS command level, type BANNER <text>/<options>.
The /<options> are optional. If no options are specified, the <text>
is sent to the printer in block letters composed of asterisks. The options,
which may be combined in any fashion, affect BANNER's behavior as follows:
/D Send the output to the display instead of the printer.
/F Formfeed (form feed to printer or clear video display)
/H Print the characters double Height.
/I Print the characters in Italics.
/S Compose each block letters with the Same character (i.e.
a lower case 'q' is made up of many lower case 'q's, etc.)
/Ux Use char 'x' instead of an asterisk to form the letters.
Note this option cannot be combined with /S.
/X Clear other parameter settings
/W Print the characters double Width.
Typing "banner" without any text will not do anything.
BANNER messages over 10 characters long will not look nice on the video
display. BANNER messages over 10 characters long which are sent to
the printer will be printed in a compacted format so as to fit on the
paper.
BANNER messages may be split up with the form separator (|) character.
For example, one might use "banner alpha/d|beta/d" to put "alpha" on
the first line and "beta" on the next.
SPECIAL NOTE: BANNER is configured for use with an Okidata 84P printer.
The program is easily patched to support other printers. The string
of characters at 103H is sent to put the printer into compact mode,
and the string at 10BH puts it back to normal. There is space for
up to 7 characters of mode-setting; the string must terminate with
a zero.
The author suspects that the following settings will work with an IBM
(a/k/a Epson) printer:
ecs:103 0F 1B 30 00
ecs:10B 12 1B 32 00
but he isn't sure.
NOTE: Patch made in accompanying copy of BANNER.COM