Re: Feed control

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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