[Tutor] python challenges

[Liam Clarke]

Ack, banner.p eh?

Can anyone explain the significance of the numbers? Are they columns?

Regards, 


Liam Clarke

On 5/8/05, Max Noel <maxnoel_fr at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
> On May 7, 2005, at 20:50, D. Hartley wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I hate to ask another question about this riddle. But I have
> > looked and looked and looked.
> >
> > Where can I find more information on 'banner'? Everywhere I look it
> > starts telling me about banner ads and so on, and that is not what I
> > want!
> >
> 
> The banner in question is the UNIX program "banner". Try running
> a search on "UNIX +banner". Also, the theory of Run-Length Encoding
> may come in handy for this part of the challenge.
> 
> -- Max
> maxnoel_fr at yahoo dot fr -- ICQ #85274019
> "Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting
> and sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge
> a perfect, immortal machine?"
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