1dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1990, 1993 2dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" 4dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" are met: 7dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12*fbbd9655SWarner Losh.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 13dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" without specific prior written permission. 15dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" 16dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.\" 28dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Dd December 30, 1993 29dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Dt LPTEST 1 30a4c37c81SRuslan Ermilov.Os 31dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME 32dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Nm lptest 33dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Nd generate lineprinter ripple pattern 34dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SYNOPSIS 35e97407b4SRuslan Ermilov.Nm 36dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Op Ar length 37dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Op Ar count 38dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION 397f94b8deSPhilippe CharnierThe 407f94b8deSPhilippe Charnier.Nm 417f94b8deSPhilippe Charnierutility writes the traditional "ripple test" pattern on standard output. 42dea673e9SRodney W. GrimesIn 96 lines, 43dea673e9SRodney W. Grimesthis pattern will print all 96 printable 44dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Tn ASCII 45dea673e9SRodney W. Grimescharacters 46dea673e9SRodney W. Grimesin each position. 47dea673e9SRodney W. GrimesWhile originally created to test printers, it is quite 48dea673e9SRodney W. Grimesuseful for testing terminals, 49dea673e9SRodney W. Grimesdriving terminal ports for debugging purposes, 50dea673e9SRodney W. Grimesor any other task where a quick supply of random data is needed. 51dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 52dea673e9SRodney W. GrimesThe 53dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Ar length 54dea673e9SRodney W. Grimesargument specifies the output line length if the default 55dea673e9SRodney W. Grimeslength of 79 is inappropriate. 56dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 57dea673e9SRodney W. GrimesThe 58dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Ar count 59dea673e9SRodney W. Grimesargument specifies the number of output lines to be generated if 60dea673e9SRodney W. Grimesthe default count of 200 is inappropriate. 61dea673e9SRodney W. GrimesNote that if 62dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Ar count 63dea673e9SRodney W. Grimesis to be specified, 64dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Ar length 65dea673e9SRodney W. Grimesmust be also be specified. 66dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Sh HISTORY 677f94b8deSPhilippe CharnierA 687f94b8deSPhilippe Charnier.Nm 697f94b8deSPhilippe Charnierutility appeared in 70dea673e9SRodney W. Grimes.Bx 4.3 . 71