Autzoo.1185 advising utzoo!henry Fri Dec 4 16:03:32 1981 card reader Actually, you can dispense with the business of hitting rubout to terminate a read, by using the mods Marcus figured out and I installed some months ago. A card with $$EOF in the first five columns and the rest blank will be seen as end-of-file on /dev/cr (use /dev/rcr if you don't want this). This way, you can do everything in one step: dd if=/dev/cr of=foo cbs=80 conv=trim will get you a normal text file from the cards. This won't work for /dev/rcr and the rubout trick, you'll have to use the two-stage method for that.