Manual page for asa(1)
asa - convert FORTRAN carriage-control output to printable form
SYNOPSIS
asa
[
-f
]
[
file...
]
AVAILABILITY
SUNWcsu
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
- -f
-
Start each file on a new page.
OPERANDS
- 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
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
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.
SEE ALSO
lp.1
environ.5
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
