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// 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