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

[Huw Davies]

On 30/03/2005, at 8:26 PM, 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?

bcd, ppt?

See  
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi? 
query=bcd&sektion=6&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE+and+Ports

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