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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:19:51 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: <764734222.749423813.114932.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> References: <pan$96411$d204da43$cc34bb91$1fe98651@linux.rocks> <5mqdnZuGq4lgwm_7nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <vcub5c$36h63$1@dont-email.me> <36KdnVlGJu9VLW77nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <IfZIO.214180$FzW1.122138@fx14.iad> <ZLecncKpCfSfT2n7nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@earthlink.com> <ZOfJO.194439$kxD8.179224@fx11.iad> <nOWcncO0uZgZyWv7nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <79CJO.19676$MoU3.9722@fx36.iad> <lbmcnV0rM4Aq_Wr7nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@earthlink.com> <20240930103650.00003985@gmail.com> <lKBKO.415316$_o_3.96698@fx17.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:19:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3a721c7ebb47ce1144e932a9b0bdb2de"; logging-data="2520151"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Cj+sI9/PeNGCl4HDFlg4w" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.3.1 (iPad) Cancel-Lock: sha1:K5vRVTPrv7gvMOv4Lp9ITsgzMIk= sha1:AQmd7luddBaj3Ja6FnaLwrlazjg= Bytes: 2634 Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote: > John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> writes: >> On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:49:43 -0400 >> "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote: >> >>> Revelation DB system used ascii-255 as the record >>> mark, 254 as the field marks and worked backwards >>> from there, thus allowing about 127 levels of >>> sub-sub values though nobody EVER used THAT many. >> >> It's always struck me as funny that nobody *ever* seems to use the >> ASCII control characters that already exist for record demarcation for >> that purpose; aside from CR/LF/tab/NUL, and BEL/SUB/ESC in interactive- >> terminal contexts, the whole 0x00-0x1F range might as well not exist. >> Not that it'd be a conspicuously *good* idea, but I've always harbored >> an impish desire to devise a format that makes use of the rest in some >> way that maps relatively logically to the original intent/description... >> > Burroughs used FS, GS, RS and US (in both EBCDIC and ASCII) for various > related purposes (most significantly to delimit fields in the block-mode > terminals). > > IBM 3270s do this too. -- Pete