Need paper tape encoding format - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Mar 2002

On Mar 1,  9:00, Stan Barr wrote:
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  pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull) said:

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  > Lots of unix (including many BSD/Linux) systems
have a program called ppt
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   (usually in
/usr/bin/games or similar) which takes an ASCII string and
 outputs a facsimile of paper tape. 
 Thanks for that, I just found it on this Linux box.   "Man ppt" also
 listed bcd which does the same for punched cards. 
And in case anyone thinks that's off-topic, this is the description from my
Seventh Edition man page on ppt:

bcd, ppt - convert to antique media

So it was considered antiquated in 1979!

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