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31.Dd September 23, 1993
32.Dt ASA 1
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm asa
36.Nd interpret carriage-control characters.
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm asa
39.Op Ar
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Nm
43utility reads files sequentially, mapping
44.Tn FORTRAN
45carriage-control characters to line-printer control sequences,
46and writes them to the standard output.
47.Pp
48The first character of each line is interpreted as a carriage-control
49character.  The following characters are interpreted as follows:
50.Bl -tag -width indent
51.It <space>
52Output the rest of the line without change.
53.It 0
54Output a <newline> character before printing the rest of the line.
55.It 1
56Output a <formfeed> character before printing the rest of the line.
57.It +
58The trailing <newline> of the previous line is replaced by a <carriage-return>
59before printing the rest of the line.
60.El
61.Pp
62Lines beginning with characters other than the above are treated as if they
63begin with <space>.
64.Sh EXAMPLES
65To view a file containing the output of a
66.Tn FORTRAN program:
67.Dl asa file
68.Pp
69To format the output of a
70.Tn FORTRAN
71program and redirect it to a line-printer.
72.Dl a.out | asa | lpr
73.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
74The
75.Nm
76utility exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
77.Sh SEE ALSO
78.Xr f77 1
79.Sh STANDARDS
80The
81.Nm asa
82utility conforms to
83.St -p1003.2-92 .
84.Sh AUTHORS
85J.T. Conklin, Winning Strategies, Inc.
86