asa(1)                                                     asa(1)



NAME
     asa - interprets ASA carriage control characters

SYNOPSIS
     asa [file]...

ARGUMENTS
     file Specifies the output of a Fortran program that uses ASA
          carriage control characters. If you do not specify
          file, asa reads the standard input.

DESCRIPTION
     asa interprets the output of Fortran programs that use
     American National Standards Institute (ANSI) carriage
     control characters to print on a line printer.

     The asa command assumes that the first character of each
     line in file is a control character and transforms the
     control character into a printer control character. Here are
     the control characters and the actions that asa takes:

     space
          Inserts a single newline character before the line,
          where space is the ASCII character 020.

     0    Inserts two newline characters before the line.

     1    Inserts a character that causes an advance to a new
          page before the line.

     +    Inserts a character that causes the previous line to be
          overprinted.

     The asa command causes the first line of each input file to
     be printed on a new page.  If any line does not begin with a
     control character, asa passes on the second and subsequent
     characters of the line and writes asa: 1 invalid input lines
     in file on the standard error.

EXAMPLES
     This command line uses asa as a filter on the output of a
     Fortran program called a.out and prints the output of asa by
     using the lp command, whose default printer is a line
     printer:

        a.out | asa | lp

     This command lets you see the output of a Fortran program
     that has been sent to a file:

        asa file




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asa(1)                                                     asa(1)



FILES
     /bin/asa
          Executable file

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

















































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