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PROGRAM
overstrike
USAGE
overstrike
DESCRIPTION
overstrike is a text stream filter, prepending to a sequence of characters
ASA carriage control codes (ANSI X3.78-1981(R1992). It assumes a line printer
that interprets ASCII character codes (INCITS/ISO/IEC 646), especially where
a line feed pushes the carriage down, and a carriage return pushes the
carriage back to its left most position.
test.txt provides backspace, tab, form feed, blank, and newline
characters as a demonstration of the filter behavior.
EXAMPLE
C:\Users\David\> overstrike <test.txt
x
+ x
abc
+___
abc
+___
Here's some stuff.
1FF
foo
@ @ @
BUGS
overstrike is naive of double and triple spacing, and vertical
tabs.
It is inefficient in producing a new overstrike line for each
sequence of backspaces.