[4,24] -- PAPER TAPE UTILITIES ------------------------------ Submitted by: Chris Doran Date: June 1987 Sira Ltd., South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5EH, England. Tel: +44 1 467 2636, Telex: 896649, FAX: +44 1 467 6515 PUNCH is a utility to punch a paper tape, with options to generate carriage-control, parity, legible header, copyright notice, checksum, and for ASCII/MURRAY code conversion. INPUT reads such tapes, with parity and checksum verification and code conversion (including EIA) options. Assemble and link as: $ MAC INPUT=INPUT $ TKB @INPRESBLD $ MAC PUNCH=PUNCH $ TKB @PUNRESBLD Notes: PUNCH doesn't have all the facilities it might, because it got replaced by a despooler with the extra features. Before you build PUNCH, you may wish to change the copyright message at label HOLDER. If you don't, anything you punch with a copyright header will be assigned to Sira! INPUT doesn't recognise an EIA tape in precisely the correct format as regards the newline character. This was done because the people who read our EIA tapes expected it that way. See the EIA standard (RS-244-B) to correct this.