September 23, 1993 ASA 1

### NAME

asa - interpret carriage-control characters

### SYNOPSIS

asa []

### DESCRIPTION

The asa utility reads files sequentially, mapping FORTRAN carriage-control characters to line-printer control sequences, and writes them to the standard output.

The first character of each line is interpreted as a carriage-control character. The following characters are interpreted as follows:

<space>
  Output the rest of the line without change.

0
  Output a <newline> character before printing the rest of the line.

1
  Output a <formfeed> character before printing the rest of the line.

+
  The trailing <newline> of the previous line is replaced by a <carriage-return> before printing the rest of the line.

Lines beginning with characters other than the above are treated as if they begin with <space>.

### EXIT STATUS

The asa utility exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

### EXAMPLES

To view a file containing the output of a FORTRAN program:
```asa` `file`

To format the output of a FORTRAN program and redirect it to a line-printer:
```a.out``|``asa``|``lpr`

### SEE ALSO

f77(1)

### STANDARDS

The asa utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'') and to X/Open Commands and Utilities Issue 5 (``XCU5'') .

### AUTHORS

J.T. Conklin, Winning Strategies, Inc.