On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:57:02 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/01/2008 > at 10:02 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: > >>First, thank you for saying "Fortran" rather than "ASCII". The >>convention is part of the FORTRAN (and, I believe, COBOL) spec, not of >>ASCII as is so commonly misstated. > >It's not part of ASCII but it is an ANSI standard. > There are numerous ANSI standards. FORTRAN specifies '1' as a page separator. ASCII specifies FF (0x0C). Merely to say "ANSI" is at best ambiguous; "ASCII" is simply wrong.
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