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

Kevin Handy kth at srv.net
Wed Mar 30 09:55:58 CST 2005


Huw Davies wrote:

>
> 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?

Under RedHat9 Linux, its /usr/games/ppt for paper tape, /usr/games/bcd
for cards, and /usr/games/morse for morse code. I believe these files
came (were stolen) from bsd.



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