asa(1)                                                     asa(1)



     NAME
          asa - interpret ASA carriage control characters

     SYNOPSIS
          asa [file...]

     DESCRIPTION
          asa interprets the output of Fortran programs that utilize
          ASA carriage control characters.  It processes either the
          files whose names are given as arguments or the standard in-
          put if no file names are supplied.  The first character of
          each line is assumed to be a control character; their mean-
          ings are:

               (blank) single newline before printing

               0    double newline before printing

               1    new page before printing

               +    overprint previous line.

          Lines beginning with other than the above characters are
          treated as if they began with The first character of a line
          is not printed.  If any such lines appear, an appropriate
          diagnostic will appear on standard error.  This program
          forces the first line of each input file to start on a new
          page.

     EXAMPLES
          To correctly view the output of Fortran programs which use
          ASA carriage control characters, asa could be used as a
          filter, thus:

               a.out | asa | lp

          and the output, properly formatted and paginated, would be
          directed to the line printer.  Fortran output sent to a file
          could be viewed by:

               asa file

     FILES
          /bin/asa

     SEE ALSO
          efl(1), f77(1), fpr(1), fsplit(1).








     April, 1990                                                     1