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 are supplied.  The first character of each line is assumed to be a control character; their meanings are:

′ ′ (blank) single new line before printing

0 double new line 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. 

EXAMPLE

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

a.out | asa | lpr

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

SEE ALSO

efl(1), fsplit(1).

Version 2.1  —  January 02, 1985