P - display text with pagination and tab escape.
Syntax:
p [options]* file*
(+|-)Ansiterminal (-) (+|-)ASciiSubset (-)
(+|-)Tabs (+) Tabs=number[,number]* (4)
(+|-)Fred (-) Lineskip=number (0)
(+|-)FormFeed (-) PageSkip=number (0)
(+|-)Raw (-) Fileskip=number (0)
+FortranSlew Pagelength=number
lineWidth=number (79) Tabs=Gmap
Options:
- +Ansiterminal
- lets P use ANSI terminal escape sequences to speed up the
display of text.
- +ASciiSubset
- translates some ASCII characters into escape sequences
for printing. This is for older "TTY" type
terminals that did not support the full ASCII character
set.
- Fileskip=number
- skips "number" end-of-file marks in
"file" before beginning to print.
- +Fred
- translates FRED escape characters into recognizable
format. For example, the FRED "\F" character is
octal 034. With +Fred, P displays the character as
"\F"; without +Fred, P displays the character
in its octal format.
- +FormFeed
- pauses on formfeed characters.
- +FortranSlew
- interprets ANSI Fortran control characters in the first
character position of each line.
- Lineskip=number
- skips "number" lines of "file" before
beginning to display.
- lineWidth=number
- folds lines longer than "number" characters
after the number'th character. lineWidth=0 tells P not to
fold long lines. The default value is 79.
- Pagelength=number
- displays "number" lines before pausing. The
default is your terminal pagination; if you have not set
such a pagination value, the default is 18. You can turn
off paging with Pagelength=0.
- PageSkip=number
- reads through "file" and begins displaying text
after "number" formfeed characters. This is
equivalent to skipping "number" pages if your
pages end with formfeeds. PageSkip= is NOT related to the
Pagelength= parameter.
- +Raw
- stops special processing of characters; all characters
are simply sent to the terminal "as is".
- Tabs=n1,n2,n3
- sets tab stops at positions n1,n2,n3,... Tab stops beyond
the last specified one are set by taking the difference
between the last two tab positions and using that
interval for all later tab stops. For example,
tabs=8,16,24,30,35
sets tabs at 8, 16, 24, 30, 35, 40, 45, and so on. If
you only specify one number, as in Tabs=N, P sets every N
positions. By default, tabs are set every four positions.
- Tabs=Gmap
- is equivalent to Tabs=8,16,32,72.
- -Tabs
- outputs tabs as the escape sequence "\ "
instead of expanding the tabs to appropriate tab stop
positions. However, if +Raw is in effect, ASCII tab
characters are transmitted instead of the "\
" escape sequence.
Examples:
- p myfile
- pauses at terminal pagination or 18 lines (default)
- p l=20 afile
- starts printing at line 20
- p l=32 p=999
- starts at line 32, pauses every 999 lines
- p
- prints *src
- p <afile
- "afile" is read as the standard input
- p ps=3 file
- start printing at the 3rd page of a TFed document.
Description:
P displays the contents of a file on the terminal. When P
reaches the end of a page (a formfeed character if +Formfeed is
in effect, or the given pagelength), P outputs a linefeed, then
pauses. When displaying a number of files consecutively, P also
pauses at the end of each file.
If you specify PageSkip=, P ignores any given page length
while skipping and only uses formfeed characters to determine
when a page ends.
When you're displaying more than one file, identifier headings
are displayed at the beginning of each file.
All options act globally and may be placed anywhere on the
command line.
As P types the file, it translates characters according to the
following table (unless in raw mode). What you get depends on
what kind of terminal you are using.
TTY TTY
(+AScii) (default)
Tab \<blank> \<blank>
Formfeed \014 \014
Open brace \( {
Close brace \) }
Or bar \! |
Accent Grave \_ `
Strange ASCII \nnn \nnn
The escape sequence for the tab character is used only if
-Tabs is in effect.
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