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39 .Nd interpret carriage-control characters
46 utility reads files sequentially, mapping
48 carriage-control characters to line-printer control sequences,
49 and writes them to the standard output.
51 The first character of each line is interpreted as a carriage-control
53 The following characters are interpreted as follows:
54 .Bl -tag -width ".Aq space"
56 Output the rest of the line without change.
60 character before printing the rest of the line.
64 character before printing the rest of the line.
68 of the previous line is replaced by a
70 before printing the rest of the line.
73 Lines beginning with characters other than the above are treated as if they
77 To view a file containing the output of a
83 To format the output of a
85 program and redirect it to a line-printer:
87 .Dl "a.out | asa | lpr"
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