GSP
Quick Navigator

Search Site

Unix VPS
A - Starter
B - Basic
C - Preferred
D - Commercial
MPS - Dedicated
Previous VPSs
* Sign Up! *

Support
Contact Us
Online Help
Handbooks
Domain Status
Man Pages

FAQ
Virtual Servers
Pricing
Billing
Technical

Network
Facilities
Connectivity
Topology Map

Miscellaneous
Server Agreement
Year 2038
Credits
 

USA Flag

 

 

Man Pages
x026(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual x026(1)

x026 - IBM keypunch emulator

x026

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 characters. 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 configured 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).

x026 is a toolkit-based program, so it understands standard Xt options and resources (e.g., -geom). It also understands the following options:
-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.

The author obviously has very little experience with real keypunches, and would appreciate any input on how to make x026 a more realistic experience.

Sound effects would be an obvious addition, but are notoriously non-portable.

Paul Mattes
13 July 2003

Search for    or go to Top of page |  Section 1 |  Main Index

Powered by GSP Visit the GSP FreeBSD Man Page Interface.
Output converted with ManDoc.