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From: Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: Feed control
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 11:43:43 -0500
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On 4/4/2024 8:52 AM, Dr. What wrote:
> -=> Gary Scott wrote to All <=-
> 
>   GS> On 4/3/2024 7:43 AM, db wrote:
>   > When I learned Fortran many years ago, the first
>   > character in a line to be printed (or later,
>   > displayed) controlled line or page feed. A blank
>   > produced a new line, a "1" a new page. We used these
>   > to control what happened.
>   >
>   > These days, this doesn't seem to be the case, so
>   > in a sense, Fortran is no longer backward
>   > compatible in this one sense. Or is it?
>   >
> 
>   GS> This was always, and remains device dependent.
> 
> That's not completely true.
> 
> Using MS-FORTRAN on my vintage computers, I always have to start my
> FORMATs
> with "1X".  If I fail to do that, the output, even to the screen, chops
> off
> that first character.

Hmmm.  I'd say that's precisely what "device dependent" means.  Although 
some behavior in MS Fortran was just bugs.
> 
> 
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