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NAME

bcd - format input as punch cards

SYNOPSIS

bcd [-l] [string ...]
bcd -d [-l]

DESCRIPTION

The bcd command reads input from either command line arguments or the standard input. An ASCII art representation of punch card data is produced.

OPTIONS

The following options are available:

-d

Decode punch card data from standard input

-l

Create punch cards with 80 columns. The default is 48 columns.

AUTHOR

Written by Steve Hayman. Translated to Perl by Michael Mikonos.

COPYRIGHT

 Copyright (c) 1989, 1993
	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

 This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
 Steve Hayman of the Indiana University Computer Science Dept.

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