NAME

asa − interpret ASA carriage control characters

SYNOPSIS

asa [files]

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 input if no file names or − is supplied.  The first character of each line is assumed to be a control character.  The following control characters are interpeted as indicated:

(blank) Output a single new-line character before printing. 

0 Output two new-line characters before printing. 

1 Output a new-page character before printing. 

+ Overprint previous line. 

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

To view the output of FORTRAN programs which use ASA carriage control characters and have them appear in normal form, asa can be used as a filter:

a.out | asa | lp

The output, properly formatted and paginated, is then directed to the line printer.  FORTRAN output previously sent to a file can be viewed on a user terminal screen by using:

asa file

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

International Code Set Support

Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported. 

SEE ALSO

efl(1), f77(1), fsplit(1), ratfor(1). 

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

asa: proposed POSIX.2 FIPS (June 1990)

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 8.05: June 1991