asa will write its input files to standard output, mapping carriage-control characters from the
text files to line-printer control sequences.The first character of every line will be removed
from the input, and the following actions will be performed:
If the character removed is:
| space | The rest of the line will be output without change. |
| 0 | A newline character will be output, then the rest of the input line. |
| 1 | One or more characters that causes an advance to the next page will be output, followed by the rest of the input line. |
| + | The newline character of the previous line will be replaced with one or more characters that causes printing to return to column position1, followed by the rest of the input line. If the + is the first character in the input, it will have the same effect as the space character. |
Syntax
asa[ file ...] |
file A pathname of a text file used for input. |
Locale
The following environment variables affect the execution of asa: | ||
LANG Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset of null, the corresponding value from the implementation-specific default locale will be used. If any of the internationalization variables contains an invalid setting, the utility will behave as if none of the variables had been defined. | ||
LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables. | ||
LC_CTYPE Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single- as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments and input files). | ||
LC_MESSAGES Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error. | ||
NLSPATH Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES. |
See also
| lp |