Some assorted minor cleanups, from larn 12.2.

[bsdgames-darwin.git] / banner / banner.6

diff --git a/banner/banner.6 b/banner/banner.6
index a4c4d6b7c473e32bf91ea6f8cd52eaa4a6750dbe..e6521fc342b067532be106ea251e50b96258de26 100644 (file)
--- a/banner/banner.6
+++ b/banner/banner.6
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: banner.6,v 1.7 1997/01/07 11:40:24 tls Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: banner.6,v 1.16 2006/12/23 09:47:30 wiz Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993, 1995
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -11,11 +11,7 @@
 .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 .\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
 .\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
-.\"    must display the following acknowledgement:
-.\"    This product includes software developed by the University of
-.\"    California, Berkeley and its contributors.
-.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
+.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
 .\"    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
 .\"    without specific prior written permission.
 .\"
@@ -33,18 +29,18 @@
 .\"
 .\"    @(#)banner.6    8.2 (Berkeley) 4/29/95
 .\"
-.Dd "April 29, 1995"
+.Dd December 14, 2006
 .Dt BANNER 6
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
-.Nm banner 
+.Nm banner
 .Nd print large banner on printer
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm banner
+.Nm
 .Op Fl w Ar width
 .Ar message ...
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Banner
+.Nm
 prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output.
 If the message is omitted, it prompts for and
 reads one line of its standard input.
@@ -53,12 +49,17 @@ If
 is given, the output is scrunched down from a width of 132 to
 .Ar width ,
 suitable for a narrow terminal.
+For example:
+.Pp
+.Dl "/usr/games/banner -w 80 Hello"
 .Pp
 The output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width,
 with no breaks between the pages.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Mark Horton
 .Sh BUGS
-Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \\,
-^, _, {, }, |, and ~.  Also, the characters ", ', and & are funny
+Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably \*[Lt], \*[Gt], [, ], \\,
+^, _, {, }, |, and ~.  Also, the characters ", ', and \*[Am] are funny
 looking (but in a useful way.)
 .Pp
 The
@@ -66,5 +67,3 @@ The
 option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns.
 The smaller it gets, the grainier the output.
 Sometimes it runs letters together.
-.Sh AUTHOR
-Mark Horton