NAME

box − put text in a box of ‘*’ characters

SYNOPSIS

box arg ... 

DESCRIPTION

Box is a shell script which places its arguments in a box of ‘*’ characters of the appropriate size and then writes it to the standard output.  It can be used to send highly visible messages, i.e.: box Im waiting in Evans | write katseff

SEE ALSO

block (VI)

AUTHOR

Howard Katseff

BUGS

Box is slow.