Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!ctrsol!sdsu!polyslo!ctuel 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 References: <6644@hubcap.clemson.edu> <14921@netnews.upenn.edu> Reply-To: ctuel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Cliff Tuel) Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Lines: 36 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 Randleto 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. -- ___________________________ ------------------------- _ . ___ -------------------------- ctuel@polyslo.CalPoly.edu (_ |_ l F F | (_) E |_ ucbvax!voder!polyslo!ctuel -------------------------___________________________--------------------------