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From: jf@threel.co.uk (John Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Carriage control characters
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Date: 17 Apr 91 09:52:20 GMT
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trevor@ccc.govt.nz writes:

> Direct cursor addressing isn't standard Fortran. (Fortran carriage-controls for
> printers IS standard, but we have one printer that doesn't recognise them...)

Well, sort of.  What the standard says is that carriage control charcters
are recognised when you are *printing*.  And it defines *printing* to mean
"The transfer of information in a formatted record to certain devices
determined by the processor".  So if your `processor' decides that
transferring records to LPA3, or more to the point, to your console screen
isn't *printing*, then it doesn't have to recognise CCCs. 

The standard adds that just because you code a PRINT statement it doesn't
mean that it's *printing*, and if you code a WRITE it doesn't mean you're
not *printing*.

--John