On Mar 1, 9:00, Stan Barr wrote:
> pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull) said:
> > Lots of unix (including many BSD/Linux) systems have a program called
ppt
> > (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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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Fri Mar 01 2002 - 16:10:43 GMT