NAME
ppt —
reformat input as paper tape
SYNOPSIS
ppt |
[string ...] |
ppt |
-d [-b] |
DESCRIPTION
The ppt command reads the given input and
reformats it in the form of paper tape. Acceptable input are command line
arguments or the standard input.
The options are as follows:
-d[-b]- Decode paper tape on the standard input back to ASCII. Unprintable
characters are visually encoded with
vis(3) unless the
-boption (binary) is also specified. A lowercase ‘x’ is printed for undecipherable input lines.
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
ECMA-10, ECMA Standard for Data Interchange on Punched Tape.
HISTORY
The ppt command first appeared in
4.3BSD-Tahoe. The options -d
and -b first appeared in OpenBSD
3.3.
AUTHORS
Keith Bostic
Paul Janzen
<pjanzen@foatdi.net>
Michael Shalayeff
<mickey@lucifier.net>