asa - interpret carriage-control characters

asa writes its input files to standard output mapping carriage control characters to line-printer control sequences.

The first character of each line or record is removed from the input and is processed as follows before the rest of the line is output:

0

A new-line is output.

1

Advance to the next page.

+

Overwrite the previous line.

space

Just output the remainder of the line.

Any other character as the first character is treated as if it were a space.

If no file operands are given or if the file is -, asa reads from standard input. The start of the file is defined as the current offset.

-r reclen

If reclen is greater than zero, the file is assumed to consist of fixed length records of length reclen.

0

Success.

>0

An error occurred.

lpr(1)

version

asa (AT&T Research) 2003-03-25

author

David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>

license

http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/reuse