^04A tool for modern times. ^82*Banner* ^02is a tool for writing messages ^03on the screen in ^84BIG ^03letters that can be read ^30across the room.^01 In addition you have control over a number of other factors.
.c^04 .m20 "*Banner* can write a normal message on the screen."
^06 Writing a normal message like that is ^60easy.^0E If you want to pause the ^8E*Banner*^0E at the end of a line, ^34you type ^04.pxxx
.p2000
Where xxx is a number. We have ^60paused^06 for a count of 2000. ^01The *Banner* display letters are made up of ^058 ^01lines of dots from your ^17IBM PC^01 character set.
.w .p1000 .d15
^04 The dots ^07 here are ^01CHR$ 15's
.wr .p5000 .d219
^01 The dots ^07 here are ^04CHR$ 219's
.w .p5000 .d220
^14 The dots ^17 here are ^15CHR$ 220's
.p5000 .d2
.wu
^02 If you don't tell ^04*Banner*
otherwise,^01 these ^04CHR$ 2 's
.wd .p1000
^03will make ^02up your ^04 *Banner*
.p 3000
.b
^03 *Banner* can change colors just like the ^01BASIC^03 ^02COLOR x,y ^03command.
.c^01 .m 20 "*Banner* can change screen colors just like BASIC's COLOR x,y command"
.c^04 .m 22 "The way it does it is with the caret (^) character."
^96...*Banner*^07 uses the caret ^07^ character and two ^84HEX^07 characters as a shorthand way of making the ^70attribute^07 byte on your display. ^04Don't worry! ^06The ^04*Banner* ^06editor will help you make up the colors for your messages.
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^01You may have noticed
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^01that *Banner* doesn't
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^01 always scroll across
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^01 the screen on the
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^01 same line. ^04This is controlled with the^02 .l xx ^04command, where xx is a number between ^0410 ^02and ^0418
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^05**********
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^17 *Banner* can hold up to 200 lines of text,^71 and provides for ^F4SAVING^71 and ^f2LOADING^71 files from disk.
.p2000 .c^01 .m21 "Hit F7 then F5 at the Main Menu for HELP with *Banner* commands"
^01To get ^81HELP^01 with commands, hit function key ^04F7 then F5 ^01at the main menu... ^03Another way would be to go to the editor, ^04 ( hit F5 )^03, and read this ^96*Banner*^03 to see how it does what it does.