TRACTORGEN(6)TRACTORGEN(6)NAMEtractorgen - Generates ASCII tractors
SYNOPSIStractorgen [number of wheels]
DESCRIPTIONtractorgen generates ASCII tractors using the universal tractor coeffi‐
cient (TC). The intended audience is practical ASCII tractor theorists
and lay people interested in abstract tractor theory.
Before using this program, ensure that you understand the fundamental
theorem of ASCII tractor mechanics:
"ASCII Tractors must have at least four wheels." [1]
Note that this theorem applies to side-on views. No useful models of
two-sided ASCII tractors have been found, nor is there even any con‐
crete proof of their existence.
In keeping with this theorem, TRACTORGEN will politely inform the user
if any attempt to make tractors with less than four wheels is made (by
calling abort(3) and dumping core).
[1] See, for example, "Introductory ASCII tractor design, vols 3-7",
Blum&Merven, Slarken Press 1973.
OPTIONS
number of wheels
If no argument is given, the optimal configuration of 7 is gen‐
erated.
USAGE
Tractorgen takes one argument. This argument is indirectly related to
the TC and is a cardinal enumerating the desired wheel configuration.
For example, if you want a tractor with 5 wheels, type at the shell
prompt:
$ tractorgen 5
Conversely, if you want a tractor with 113 wheels, type:
$ tractorgen 113
Remember that tractors with large numbers of wheels may overflow the
width of your terminal, with unpredictable results. Actually, it will
probably just look like shit.
FILES
None
SEE ALSOabort(3)WEBSITE
http://www.vergenet.net/~konradd/software/tractorgen/
AUTHOR
Kbert <k@vergenet.net>
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version. See the file COPYING for details.
Though I have no idea why you'd want to do any of this.
3th March 2000 TRACTORGEN(6)
