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From: carl@sdcsvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: nonstandard fortran carriage control? (fpr)
Message-ID: <789@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 10:43:35 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.789
Posted: Tue Apr 16 10:43:35 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Apr-85 05:46:01 EST
References: <1103@rocksvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: carl@sdcsvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein)
Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego
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Summary: 

In article <1103@rocksvax.UUCP> z@rocksvax.UUCP (Jim Ziobro) writes:
>It looks like a VMS program (SYE actually) produces a '$' carraige control
>character.  As best I can tell what it means is space one line, concantenate
>the following lines up to and including a line with a '+' carraige control.

Making the rash assumption that most DEC Fortrans do the same thing with
carriage control, '$' means "don't make a <cr> at the end of this text."
The most common reason for doing this is an interactive situation where
you would like to prompt the user, and then wait on the same line for
the answer.