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asa(1) General Commands Manual asa(1) NAME asa - Interprets carriage-control characters SYNOPSIS asa [file ...] STANDARDS Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry stan- dards as follows: asa: XPG4, XPG4-UNIX Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about in- dustry standards and associated tags. FLAGS [XPG4-UNIX] None PARAMETERS [XPG4-UNIX] The pathname of a file to be read. If this parameter is omitted, standard input is read. DESCRIPTION [XPG4-UNIX] The asa command writes its input files to standard output, mapping carriage-control characters from the text files to line-printer control sequences. [XPG4-UNIX] The first character of every input line is removed and, depending on the character removed, an action performed on that charac- ter and the rest of the line. If the character removed is: [XPG4-UNIX] The rest of the line is output without change. [XPG4-UNIX] A newline character is output, followed by the rest of the input line. [XPG4-UNIX] A form-feed character is output, followed by the rest of the input line. [XPG4-UNIX] The newline character of the previous line is replaced with a carriage-return character, which is output, followed by the rest of the input line. If + is the first char- acter in the input, + has the same effect as the space character. [Digital] The character is output, followed by the rest of the input line. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES The following environment variables affect the execution of asa: [XPG4-UNIX] Provides a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corre- sponding value from the default locale is used. If any of the interna- tionalization variables contain an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of the variables had been defined. [XPG4-UNIX] If set to a non-empty string value, overrides the values of all the other interna- tionalization variables. [XPG4-UNIX] Determines the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments and input files). [XPG4-UNIX] Determines the locale for the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error. [XPG4-UNIX] Determines the location of message catalogues for the pro- cessing of LC_MESSAGES. EXAMPLES To view a file (created by a program using FORTRAN-style carriage con- trol characters) on a terminal: asa file To format the FORTRAN output of a.out and direct it to the printer: a.out | asa | lp EXIT VALUES The following exit values are returned: [XPG4-UNIX] Successful completion [XPG4-UNIX] An error occurred RELATED INFORMATION Commands: lp(1) Standards: standards(5) delim off asa(1)