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ASA(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual ASA(1) NAME asa - interpret carriage-control characters SYNOPSIS asa [file ...] 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 exits 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 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. FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 January 31, 2020 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8