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ALLIANCEBANNER(3) MBK UTILITY FUNCTIONS ALLIANCEBANNER(3)

NAME

alliancebanner - display the standardized Alliance banner

ORIGIN

This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM developed by the ASIM team at LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France.

Web : http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/
E-mail : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr

SYNOPSYS

#include "mut.h"
void alliancebanner(tool, tv, comment, date, av)
char ∗tool, ∗tv, ∗comment, ∗date, ∗av;

PARAMETERS

tool
Name of the tool. This is what will be displayed as banner.
tv
Tool version.
comment
Indicates the tool's usefulness.
date
Copyright dates.
av
Alliance version.

DESCRIPTION

alliancebanner ouputs on stdout a standardized banner with the name of the tool in large letters, and a cartouche containing some informations about the Alliance CAD system. This function is to be used by all the Alliance tools, and expect a display 80 columns wide.

EXAMPLE

#include "ba315n.h"
#define nfloptitle(name) \
        alliancebanner("nFloP", VERSION,\
                       "not a FloorPlan router", "92, 93",\
                       ALLIANCE_VERSION)

SEE ALSO

alliance(1).

DIAGNOSTICS

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.

BUG REPORT

This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory.
We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools.

October 1, 1997 ASIM/LIP6