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From: ctuel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Cliff Tuel)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: ASCII Posters
Keywords: Microsoft Collection
Message-ID: <1989Oct2.215549.19046@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 2 Oct 89 21:55:49 GMT
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Reply-To: ctuel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Cliff Tuel)
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silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Andy Silverman) said...
|Along these lines, can someone point me to a description of the format of
|these files and/or source for decoding, e.g. what do the different chars
|at the beginning of each line mean?

It sounds like you're talking about the Fortran codes.  These control
line spacing and overprinting.  Your system might have the "fpr"
(Fortran print) command, or you might have an "lpr" option to handle
these.  If not, here is an explaination from the "fpr" man page:


	     Character	 | Vertical Space Before Printing  
	  ---------------+-------------------------------- 
	       Blank	 | One line			   
	  	 0	 | Two lines			   
	  	 1	 | To first line of next page	   
	  	 +	 | No advance			   

     A blank line is treated as	if its first character is a
     blank. A blank that appears as a carriage control character
     is	deleted. A zero	is changed to a	newline.  A one	is
     changed to	a form feed. The effects of a "+" are simulated
     using backspaces.


A program called "ffilter" was posted a while back by Bill Randle
 to deal with these.  He also wrote a program
to print these files on a Postscript printer or view them on a
Sun.  If you need copies of these programs, drop me a note.


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