Re: Fortran write(print) problem

Brooks Moses <bmoses-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Richard E Maine wrote:
>> Although I agree (and have regularly said) that the general rule is that
>> * formatting is for when you don't care about the details, this
>> particular case is not even a matter where the compiler might or might
>> not do what you want. In this case, the standard actually *REQUIRES*
>> the compiler to do what you don't want (even if some compilers have been
>> known to violate the standard). The reasons for that are historical.

>If you don't mind the telling, I'd like to hear the historical reasons.

The first character in a printed line was interpreted as a (hardware)
carriage control character. ' ' meant a new line, '1' a new page,
'+' overprinting, and possibly a few others that I've forgotten.

The 'asa' utility on Unix systems is usually used to convert this to
something more Unixish.
.

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