The Paper Tape Project -- User space paper tape reader ===================================================== 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