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From: tholen@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (David Tholen)
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Subject: Re: Option in OPEN... which is more prevalent??
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Date: 7 Nov 90 04:37:50 GMT
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In article bcphyagi@Twg-S5.uucp (Stephen Walton) writes:
 
> For what it's worth, most non-DEC compilers seem to adopt the CARRIAGECONTROL=
> form.  I've used a lot of compilers, and I've never seen ACTION=PRINT.

I have.  Saw it in a UNIX f77 compiler under BSD 4.1 or 4.2, as I recall.  The
purpose was to alter the default treatment of carriage control.  Files
ultimately destined for a printer could be written to disk using ACTION='PRINT'
so that carriage control characters could be inserted into the file.  For
example, a '1' as the first character of an output record would be converted
to a formfeed character if ACTION='PRINT' were in effect.