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 - is specified or if no file names or given.  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: POSIX.2

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 9.0: August 1992