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4 | <h2>Perl tools</h2> |
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6 | <p>The perl tools are some self-explanatory perl scripts that e.g. |
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7 | draw paper tapes (ASCII art), generate labels in different "fonts", |
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8 | parse ASCII number files, etc. |
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10 | <p>They only require a perl compiler but nothing more -- no exotic |
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11 | CPAN modules, etc. -- so they'll run on almost every platform. |
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13 | <h3>The files in detail</h3> |
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14 | |
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15 | <p>This is an overview over the perl tools: |
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17 | <ul> |
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18 | <li><a href="byte-tester">byte-tester</a>: Will simply output |
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19 | a byte with the value you gave the program via argv[1]. Nice |
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20 | for sending special bytes via shell scripts to the puncher |
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21 | <li><a href="hex-meter">hex-meter</a>: Generates a quite long |
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22 | byte pattern that contains all possible byte values from 0x00 |
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23 | up to 0xFF. Nice for debugging and espacially practical for |
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24 | counting rapidly the position on another paper tape. |
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25 | <li><a href="how-long-is-this-papertape">how-long-is-this-papertape</a>: |
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26 | This is a kind of <tt>du</tt> shell utility for paper tapes – |
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27 | it won't count the size some files take on your hard disk but |
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28 | the length of paper tape they would produce if punched out ;-) |
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29 | <li><a href="label-it">label-it</a>: A very simple implementation of |
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30 | a paper tape font: You input the label via command line arguments |
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31 | and this script will produce some bytes that will look like text |
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32 | when punched out on a paper tape ;-) |
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33 | <br>This was the very first implementation of a paper tape font. |
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34 | <li><a href="punch-simulator">punch-simulator</a>: A very simple |
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35 | program to print out how bytes (reading from STDIN) would look |
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36 | on a paper tape. ASCII art :-) |
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37 | <li><a href="read-file">read-file</a>: This is a simple program that |
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38 | reads in numbers from a text file and packs them together to bytes. |
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39 | So this behaves a bit like byte-tester, only more complex. |
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40 | <li><a href="strip-null-bytes.c">strip-null-bytes (C program)</a>: |
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41 | This is a quite simple program that strips all null bytes at the |
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42 | start and end of a file/stdin and outputs that to stdout. Since |
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43 | that s a quite low-level task, it's implemented in C. |
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44 | <li><a href="alter-udo-parser">udo-parser 0</a>, |
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45 | <a href="udo-parser">udo-parser 1</a>: Some simple Perl ASCII |
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46 | file parsers that generate byte data to stdout. |
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47 | </ul> |
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50 | <h3>Copyright for the complete directory</h3> |
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51 | <p>Copyright 2008 Sven Köppel, all tools in this directory are |
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52 | released under the GPL. |
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53 | |
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54 | <p>The Paper Tape Project Perl Tools are free software: you can |
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55 | redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the |
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56 | GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software |
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57 | Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) |
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58 | any later version. |
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59 | |
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60 | <p>Programs from the Paper Tape Project are distributed in the hope |
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61 | that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even |
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62 | the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR |
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63 | PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. |
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64 | |
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65 | <p>For a copy of the GNU General Public License, see |
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66 | <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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