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+// Copyright 2025 WIT.COM Inc Licensed GPL 3.0
+
+// you can replace all of COBOL with this amount of GO
+
+// ah yes, COBOL. what an ancient throwback. for those that know
+// then you know exactly what is in this file. For those that don't, here it is:
+
+// All this does is output human readable text formatted to be viewable on
+// a console with a fixed with font. AKA: a typerwriter. Which is exactly
+// what COBOL did in the 1970's (60s? notsure) And the 80s.
+
+// So, you want to dump out stuff on the console. Let's see. Something like
+
+/*
+ forge --favorites
+
+ go.wit.com/apps/myapp v0.2.0 (installed)
+ go.wit.com/lib/somethingfun v0.0.7 (not downloaded)
+*/
+
+// anyway, you get the idea. This is also called COBOL because it does
+// truncate every line output to the columns you see with stty -a
+// my monitor is huge, so it's not going to work at 80x24. 160x48 is better
+// actually, I'd predict some of these will probably end up 240 wide
+// long live good eyesight and 4K monitors!
+
+// TODO: fix this to truncate with stty cols width