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From: rbr4@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts)
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Subject: Re: Non-VMS like behaviour of "f77 -vms ..."
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Date: 9 Nov 90 23:26:32 GMT
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In article <1990Nov9.012631.13152@odin.corp.sgi.com>
  calvin@dinkum.wpd.sgi.com (Calvin H. Vu) writes: 
>...BTW, I know '$' can be used as a format editing character (i.e.
>above usage) but I've never heard that it can be used as a carriage
>control character (i.e. below usage) and effects the NEXT INPUT line:
>
>        WRITE( 6, '(''$Enter your answer: '')' ) ! Sure you can do this ?
>
At least on VAXen, the C Run-Time library claims that RMS translates
fortran carraige control files in this fashion.  Page 1-15 (section
1.3.2) says:

character           output
NULL		--> <record>
0		--> \n\n<record>\r
1		--> \f<record>\r
+		--> <record>\r
$		--> \n<record>
all others	--> \n<record>\r

`\r' is carraige return, `\n' is newline, `\f' is formfeed.

roland
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