Due Friday, 1999/09/24
Write a program which reads characters from standard input (i.e., until the user types a CTRL-D) and for each character read produces a bigger version of that character, sideways, composed entirely of asterisks and spaces. This is a banner printing program.
As a simplification, you may wish to implement only a few letters of the alphabet (say, the ones in your name) but your program should be capable of creating a banner comprised entirely of the letters or other symbols you implement. In any case, your program should include a separate function for each letter it is capable of printing.
When you run your program, the dialogue should look something like this:
$ ./banner
banner -- produces a banner from the characters entered.
Enter text followed by CTRL-D.
ray
**********
**********
**
***
**
****
********
*** ***
*** ***
********
**********
*********
** **********
** **
** **
****************
**************
$
Note that this same program could be used print a banner for the word "array".
Copyright © 1999, Ray Ontko (rayo@ontko.com).