1.\" $OpenBSD: ppt.6,v 1.2 2014/11/18 02:25:12 schwarze 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 $Mdocdate: November 18 2014 $ 33.Dt PPT 6 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm ppt 37.Nd reformat input as paper tape 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm 40.Op Ar string ... 41.Nm 42.Fl d 43.Op Fl b 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm ppt 47command reads the given input and reformats it in the form of paper tape. 48Acceptable input are command line arguments or the standard input. 49.Pp 50The options are as follows: 51.Bl -tag -width 7n 52.It Fl d Op Fl b 53Decode paper tape on the standard input back to ASCII. 54Unprintable characters are visually encoded with 55.Xr vis 3 56unless the 57.Fl b 58option (binary) is also specified. 59A lowercase 60.Sq x 61is printed for undecipherable input lines. 62.El 63.Sh SEE ALSO 64.Xr bcd 6 65.Sh STANDARDS 66.Rs 67.%I ECMA-10 68.%R "ECMA Standard for Data Interchange on Punched Tape" 69.Re 70.Sh HISTORY 71The 72.Nm 73command first appeared in 74.Bx 4.3 Tahoe . 75The options 76.Fl d 77and 78.Fl b 79first appeared in 80.Ox 3.3 . 81.Sh AUTHORS 82.An Keith Bostic 83.An Paul Janzen Aq Mt pjanzen@foatdi.net 84.An Michael Shalayeff Aq Mt mickey@lucifier.net 85