x026(1)x026(1)NAMEx026 - IBM keypunch emulator
SYNOPSISx026DESCRIPTIONx026 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).
OPTIONSx026 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.
BUGS
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.
AUTHOR
Paul Mattes
13 July 2003 x026(1)
