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- add tractorgen(6) manpage and other documentation PR: 50514 Submitted by: Robin Elfrink <elfrink@introcom.nl> (maintainer)
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.\" tractorgen.6 March 2000
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.\" Kbert k@vergenet.net
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.\"
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.\" tractorgen
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.\" Generates ASCII tractors
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.\" Copyright (C) 1999-2002 Kbert <k@vergenet.net>
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.\"
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.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
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.\" License, or (at your option) any later version.
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.\"
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.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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.\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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.\" General Public License for more details.
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.\"
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.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
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.\" 02111-1307 USA
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.\"
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.TH TRACTORGEN 6 "3th March 2000"
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.SH NAME
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tractorgen \- Generates ASCII tractors
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBtractorgen [number of wheels]\fP
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBtractorgen\fP generates ASCII tractors using the universal tractor
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coefficient (TC). The intended audience is practical ASCII tractor
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theorists and lay people interested in abstract tractor theory.
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Before using this program, ensure that you understand the fundamental
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theorem of ASCII tractor mechanics:
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"ASCII Tractors must have at least four wheels." [1]
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Note that this theorem applies to side-on views. No useful models of
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two-sided ASCII tractors have been found, nor is there even any
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concrete proof of their existence.
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In keeping with this theorem, TRACTORGEN will politely inform the user
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if any attempt to make tractors with less than four wheels is made
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(by calling abort(3) and dumping core).
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[1] See, for example, "Introductory ASCII tractor design, vols 3-7",
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Blum&Merven, Slarken Press 1973.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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\fBnumber of wheels\fP
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If no argument is given, the optimal configuration of 7 is generated.
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.SH USAGE
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Tractorgen takes one argument. This argument is indirectly related
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to the TC and is a cardinal enumerating the desired wheel
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configuration.
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For example, if you want a tractor with 5 wheels, type at the shell
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prompt:
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$ tractorgen 5
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Conversely, if you want a tractor with 113 wheels, type:
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$ tractorgen 113
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Remember that tractors with large numbers of wheels may overflow the
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width of your terminal, with unpredictable results. Actually, it will
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probably just look like shit.
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.SH FILES
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.TP
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None
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.SH SEE ALSO
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abort(3)
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.SH WEBSITE
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http://www.vergenet.net/~konradd/software/tractorgen/
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.SH AUTHOR
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.br
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Kbert <k@vergenet.net>
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.SH LICENSE
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.br
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the file COPYING for details.
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Though I have no idea why you'd want to do any of this.
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