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Completed documentation (everything in english) and licence issues (everything is
GPLv3 now).

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2   The Paper Tape Project -- User space paper tape reader
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5   This ppdev userspace driver drives the GHIELMETTI FER 201. Most
6   things from the puncher driver also apply here, especially the
7   setoff-strobe program which stops the reader from running all
8   the time.
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10   Usage of reader[.c]:
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12     $ ./reader > read-in-file.bin
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14   The program is not really completed, thus it won't correctly
15   detect the end of the paper tape, but it stops automatically
16   some time after the paper tape run out. You should use your
17   favourite binary file editor to beautify the read in file
18   a bit, alternatively you can use the strip-null-bytes program
19   from the perl-tools directory to strip the file:
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21     $ ./reader | ../perl-tools/strip-null-bytes > read-in.bin
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23   See reader.c for more information and copyright information.
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25   Sven, 19.07.2008
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