From: miki@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9512012209.AA26370@tamar.MIT.EDU>
To: dcns@MIT.EDU
Subject: Banners and headaches
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 17:09:22 EST


   I have been suffering from a rare illness called Banner Pages. When I was
still new in the job of "care taker of the printers", I did not know that there
were several types of Banner Pages, each one represented by another banner.pro
and diplayed by a matching psbanner binary. The problem was that all these
"banner.pro"s  were all called banner.pro and all the "psbanner"s were called 
psbanner just that some banner.pro did not match some psbanner and some 
banner.pro did not work with some printers. Is it clear ??

  To make it easier for the ones like me that are not very smart I decided
to have just one type of Banner Page, which is represented by one banner.pro
and its matching psbanner. This Banner Page will have PS directives understood
by all printers and will be unique. Its style is the 2 gray lines campus
style, not the fancy one we are used to in this building.  I may have continued
with the mix and match who is clever will know game we use to play before, but
... I was tired to have Brian and me getting loony. 

  If you know of any good reason why starting with rev8.0 of Athena we should not
all (here in E40 and on the campus) have one type of Banner Page, let me know 
(and I will persuade you of the contrary or let you deal with the problems we
have because of severla banner types).


Miki