1.\" $NetBSD: bcd.6,v 1.19 2019/09/02 08:26:00 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)bcd.6 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 31.\" 32.Dd September 1, 2019 33.Dt BCD 6 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm bcd , 37.Nm ppt , 38.Nm morse 39.Nd "reformat input as punch cards, paper tape or morse code" 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm 42.Op Ar string ... 43.Nm ppt 44.Op Fl d Ns \&| Ns Ar string ... 45.Nm morse 46.Op Fl ds Ar string ... 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48The 49.Nm , 50.Nm ppt 51and 52.Nm morse 53commands read the given input and reformat it in the form of 54punched cards, paper tape or morse code respectively. 55Acceptable input are command line arguments or the standard input. 56.Pp 57Available option: 58.Bl -tag -width flag 59.It Fl s 60The 61.Fl s 62option for morse produces dots and dashes rather than words. 63.It Fl d 64Decode 65.Nm ppt 66output, or 67.Nm morse 68output consisting of dots and dashes (as generated by using the 69.Fl s 70option). 71.El 72.Sh SEE ALSO 73.Rs 74.%B "ISO 1681:1973: Information processing--Unpunched paper cards--Specification" 75.Re 76.Rs 77.%B "ISO 1682:1973: Information processing--80 columns punched paper cards--Dimensions and location of rectangular punched holes" 78.Re 79.Rs 80.%B "ECMA-10: ECMA Standard for Data Interchange on Punched Tape" 81.Re 82.Rs 83.%B "ITU-T Recommendation F.1: Operational provisions for the international public telegram service" 84.%O "Division B, I. Morse code" 85.Re 86.Sh HISTORY 87A 88.Nm bcd 89utility appeared in 90.At v1 . 91The current implementation originates from a rewrite included in 92.Bx 4.3 reno . 93