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User Commandsasa(1)


NAME

 asa - convert FORTRAN carriage-control output to printable form

SYNOPSIS

 asa [-f] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

 

The asa utility will write its input files to standard output, mapping carriage-control characters from the text files to line-printer control sequences.

The first character of every line will be removed from the input, and the following actions will be performed.

If the character removed is:

SPACE
The rest of the line will be output without change.
0
It is replaced by a newline control sequence followed by the rest of the input line.
1
It is replaced by a newpage control sequence followed by the rest of the input line.
+
It is replaced by a control sequence that causes printing to return to the first column of the previous line, where the rest of the input line is printed.

For any other character in the first column of an input line, asa skips the character and prints the rest of the line unchanged.

If asa is called without providing a filename, the standard input is used.

OPTIONS

 

The following option is supported:

-f
Start each file on a new page.

OPERANDS

 

The following operand is supported:

file
A pathname of a text file used for input. If no file operands are specified, or `-' is specified, then the standard input will be used.

EXAMPLES

 Example 1. Examples of the asa command.
 

The command

 
a.out | asa | lp

converts output from a.out to conform with conventional printers and directs it through a pipe to the printer.

The command

 
asa output

shows the contents of file output on a terminal as it would appear on a printer.

The following program is used in the next two examples:

 
write(*,'(" Blank")')
write(*,'("0Zero ")')
write(*,'("+        Plus ")')
write(*,'("1One  ")')
end

Example 1. With actual files:

 
a.out >  MyOutputFile
asa < MyOutputFile | lp

Example 2. With only pipes:

a.out | asa | lp

Both of the above examples produce two pages of output:

Page 1:

 
Blank

ZeroPlus

Page 2:

 
One

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

 

See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of asa: LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

 

The following exit values are returned:

0
All input files were output successfully.
>0
An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES

 

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWcsu

SEE ALSO

 

lp(1), attributes(5), environ(5)


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 18 Apr 1995

 
      
      
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