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x026(1) General Commands Manual x026(1) NAME x026 - IBM keypunch emulator SYNOPSIS x026 DESCRIPTION x026 is a simulation of an IBM 026 keypunch. It allows input from the keyboard or by pasting the X11 selection with the middle mouse button. Keyboard input is deliberately paced so that typing occurs at a realistically slow pace. This can be overridden with a command-line option. If the selected character set does not support lower-case characters, they will be mapped to upper-case char- acters. If the selected character set does not support a particular character at all, it will be ignored. Multiple punches in a single column can be entered by holding down the Alt key. The current card can be moved left and right with the left and right cursor keys, and back to column 1 with the Home key. There is one con- figured tab stop, which is set up to skip to the body of a FORTRAN statement. The current card is stored, and the next card fed in, with the Return key. There is a button to discard the current card; it will be replaced with a blank card with the same sequence number as the discarded card. The virtual card deck can be saved in one of two ways. The Save Ascii option saves the deck as ASCII (actually ISO 8859-1) text, with multi- punch columns implemented as backspaces. The Save Images option saves the deck in Douglas Jones's standard card deck format (see http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/index.html for details). OPTIONS x026 is a toolkit-based program, so it understands standard Xt options and resources (e.g., -geom). It also understands the following op- tions: -ifont font Interpreter (card edge) font. Defaults to 7x13. -nonumber Do not automatically number the cards in columns 73 through 80. -typeahead Allow typeahead. This is very un-026-like. -charset name Keypunch character set: bcd-h 026 FORTRAN (default) bcd-a 026 commercial 029 029 standard 1401 IBM 1401 ebcdic S/360 EBCDIC -card name Card image: collins Collins Radio Corporation cmu Carnegie Mellon University -026ftn Alias for -charset bcd-h. -026comm Alias for -charset bcd-a. -029 Alias for -charset 029. -EBCDIC Alias for -charset ebcdic. -help Display command-line syntax help. BUGS The author obviously has very little experience with real keypunches, and would appreciate any input on how to make x026 a more realistic ex- perience. Sound effects would be an obvious addition, but are notoriously non- portable. AUTHOR Paul Mattes 13 July 2003 x026(1)
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