NAME

asa — interpret carriage-control characters

SYNOPSIS

asa	[file ...]

DESCRIPTION

The asa utility reads files sequentially, mapping FORTRAN carriage-control characters to line-printer control sequences, and writes them to the standard output.

The first character of each line is interpreted as a carriage-control character. The following characters are interpreted as follows:

<space>

Output the rest of the line without change.

0

Output a <newline> character before printing the rest of the line.

1

Output a <formfeed> character before printing the rest of the line.

+

The trailing <newline> of the previous line is replaced by a <carriage-return> before printing the rest of the line.

Lines beginning with characters other than the above are treated as if they begin with <space>.

EXIT STATUS

The asa utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

To view a file containing the output of a FORTRAN program:

asa file

To format the output of a FORTRAN program and redirect it to a line-printer:

a.out | asa | lpr

SEE ALSO

f77(1)

STANDARDS

The asa utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (“POSIX.2”) and to X/Open Commands and Utilities Issue 5 (“XCU5”).

AUTHORS

J.T. Conklin, Winning Strategies, Inc.