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ASA(1) BSD General Commands Manual ASA(1)NAMEasa -- interpret carriage-control characters.SYNOPSISasa [file ...]DESCRIPTIONThe 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>.EXAMPLESTo 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 | lprDIAGNOSTICSThe asa utility exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.SEE ALSOf77(1)STANDARDSThe asa utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').AUTHORSJ.T. Conklin, Winning Strategies, Inc.BSDSeptember 23, 1993 BSD
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