---
name: "animtape"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ftape-util"
version: "1:1.09.2002.03.21-0.3"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/animtape"
---

# animtape(1)

## NAME

animtape

## SYNOPSIS

**animtape** \[*options* ...\]

## DESCRIPTION

**animtape** is an \_UGLY\_  perl script to generate an animation sequence of simplified tape cartridges.

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are mandatory or optional for short options too.

- **-f** **--file**

  Output file. Default is "animfoo.obj".

- **-n** **--step**

  The increment/decrement of the tape spindels measured in pixels. Default is 5.

- **-s** **--scale**

  Fraction to scale the image size with. The default size is 412x312 pixels. UNIMPLEMENTED

- **-h**, **--help**

  Print this help.

- \-?

  Same as '-h'.

- **--usage**

  Same as '-h'.

- **-V**, **--version**

  Print version information.

Author:

Claus-Justus Heine \<claus@momo.math.rwth-aachen.de\>

## NOTES

This manual page has been generated using the **help2man** script and some minor corrections were added. It was done by Agustin Martin Domingo \<agmartin@debian.org\>,  for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux system (but may be used  by others).