NAME

	marquee – display text nicely

SYNOPSIS

	marquee

DESCRIPTION

Marquee reads its standard input and displays the text it finds in a large font on a colored background. It uses wordwrap(2) to wrap the input at word boundaries and will re–wrap if the window is resized. If there is too much input to fit in the window, it will write off the bottom. Marquee runs both on Plan 9 and on Unix, using plan9port, Under unix it will use fontsrv(4) to use a nicer system font. It detects unix by looking for the service environment variable either being blank or set to unix.

SOURCE

	http://a.9srv.net/src/marquee.c

SEE ALSO

	litclock(1), wordwrap(2)

BUGS

	It should be possible to change the initial message. There is no fallback mechanism for characters in the input text which aren't in the display font. It should be possible to set the color and possibly the margin. Tabs in the input are just rendered as a single space.