30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
2:26 a.m.
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?
Thanks,
-ethan
30 Mar
30 Mar
5:09 a.m.
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
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the
Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"
7:55 a.m.
New subject: program to print out ASCII renderings of punch cards and/or papertape?
Huw Davies wrote:
On 30/03/2005, at 8:26 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
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.
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?
10:42 a.m.
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:09:20 +1000, Huw Davies
<huw.davies at kerberos.davies.net.au> wrote:
On 30/03/2005, at 8:26 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Yep... those are them. Thanks!
Seems that the machines I have access to do not have the old Berkely
Games loaded. I might have found them sooner, otherwise.
-ethan
... ISTR there _used_ to be a program that
shipped with UNIX...
that could take a string... and print either a punch card image or papertape renderings
bcd, ppt? 
8:28 a.m.
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 05:26 -0500, 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?
Banner?
--
TTFN - Guy
2 Apr
2 Apr
11:35 a.m.
New subject: program to print out ASCII renderings of punch cards and/or papertape?
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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