program to print out ASCII renderings of punch cards and/or papertape?

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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> I've been wracking my brains and googling for most of an hour... ISTR
> there _used_ to be a program that shipped with UNIX (at least
> BSD-flavors, if nothing else) that could take a string as a command
> line arg, and print either a punch card image or papertape renderings
> to stdout.
>
> Does anyone remember the _name_ of this program?

Not what you're looking for, but cute nonetheless:

http://www.kloth.net/services/cardpunch.php

Constructs a fairly nice graphic image (in JPG or PNG) of a punch card
with whatever text string you give it.  Allows several different character
sets.  Neat-o!

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