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

[Pete Turnbull]

On Mar 30 2005,  5:26, 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?

ppt(6) for paper tape form, bcd(6) for punch cards.

In Seventh Edition, BSD, SunOS 4, and some Linux distros.  I think I
have the Seventh Edition source here somewhere if you want it :-)

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