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