> On Feb 2, 2018, at 10:19 AM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Also, given the FORMAT(/), I’ll also hazard a guess that TYPE did not
>> automatically add a new line on whatever was printed. But that is just a
>> guess.
>>
> I don’t think the slash is one of the ASA control characters
It's not. Tim said it -- it indicates end of record. A FORMAT statement gives
the layout for one or more records. The fields separated by commas specify the
consecutive parts of a single record; each / is a record boundary. Also, the
end of the FORMAT corresponds to the end of record. In the DEC implementation,
for terminals, trailing $ meant "do not end the record", i.e., don't insert
newline at this point. That was used for prompt strings in interactive
applications written in FORTRAN.
So for example:
WRITE(5,10)
10 FORMAT (' Hello'//' there')
would produce (without the indent)
Hello
there
(with a blank line between the two text lines, corresponding to the first / in
the format). Note that each record begins with carriage control; the leading
space in each of those two strings is the "single space" carriage control
character.
paul
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