ALCBANNER(1)

NAME
alcbanner - Display a standardized banner for Alliance tools

SYNOPSIS

alcbanner tool toolversion purpose copyrightdates

DESCRIPTION
alcbanner display on stdout a standardized banner for the Alliance tools. This is a compiled version of the alliancebanner(2) function.

EXAMPLE
    alcbanner GenPat 3.1 "Procedural GENeration of test PATterns" 1991
will display :
             @@@@ @                        @@@@@@@
           @@    @@                          @@   @@               @
          @@      @                          @@    @@             @@
         @@             @@@@@   @@@ @@@      @@    @@   @@@@      @@
         @@            @     @   @@@   @     @@   @@   @@   @   @@@@@@@@
         @@     @@@@@ @@     @@  @@    @@    @@@@@     @@   @@    @@
         @@     @ @@  @@@@@@@@@  @@    @@    @@          @@@@@    @@
         @@    @  @@  @@         @@    @@    @@        @@   @@    @@
          @@      @@  @@      @  @@    @@    @@       @@    @@    @@
           @@    @@    @@    @@  @@    @@    @@       @@   @@@    @@   @
             @@@@        @@@@   @@@@  @@@@ @@@@@@      @@@@  @@    @@@@
                     Procedural GENeration of test PATterns
                  Alliance CAD System 3.2b,          genpat 3.1
                  Copyright (c) 1991-1997,       ASIM/LIP6/UPMC
                  E-mail        : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr

SEE ALSO

mbk(1) alliancebanner(3).

DIAGNOSTICS
The output is centered for a 80 columns screen, so it can be used on most display easilly, and not found at execution time. alliancebanner: Error: Resulting size bigger than 80 columns not allowed
    The tool argument must be such that its resulting size isn't wider that 80 culumns. This means, since the character set is proportional, that the longest name to be output is about 8 characters long.
alliancebanner: Error: Character out of [0-9A-Za-z] range
    The tool parameter has a non allowed character in it. For simplicity purposes, only numbers and letters are accepted.