https://github.com/kfish/tractorgen

Generates ASCII tractors.
https://github.com/kfish/tractorgen

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Generates ASCII tractors.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kfish/tractorgen
• Owner: kfish
• Created: 2008-12-20T10:57:58.000Z (about 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-03-05T07:33:47.000Z (almost 15 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-04-12T18:20:42.472Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/tractorgen/
• Size: 98.6 KB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: ChangeLog

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README

        

TRACTORGEN

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Generates ASCII tractors.

This program generates ASCII tractors using the universal tractor

coefficient (TC). The intended audience is practical ASCII tractor

theorists and lay people interested in abstract tractor theory.

Before using this program, ensure that you understand the fundamental

theorem of ASCII tractor mechanics:

        "ASCII Tractors must have at least four wheels." [1]

Note that this theorem applies to side-on views. No useful models of

two-sided ASCII tractors have been found, nor is there even any

concrete proof of their existence.

In keeping with this theorem, TRACTORGEN will politely inform the user

if any attempt to make tractors with less than four wheels is made

(by calling abort(2) and dumping core).

USAGE

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Tractorgen takes one argument. This argument is indirectly related

to the TC and is a cardinal enumerating the desired wheel

configuration. If no argument is given, the optimal configuration

of 7 is generated.

For example, if you want a tractor with 5 wheels, type at the shell

prompt:

$ tractorgen 5

Conversely, if you want a tractor with 113 wheels, type:

$ tractorgen 113

Remember that tractors with large numbers of wheels may overflow the

width of your terminal, with unpredictable results. Actually, it will

probably just look like shit.

WEB PAGE

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For updates and news regarding TRACTORGEN (both completely unlikely),

see http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/tractorgen/

LICENSE

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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.

Though I have no idea why you'd want to do any of this.

AUTHOR

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This was written by Kbert ([email protected]), more as a dare than

anything else. Original inspiration from SCOboy for asking a dumb

question.

REFERENCES

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[1] See, for example, "Introductory ASCII tractor design, vols 3-7",

Blum&Merven, Slarken Press 1973.