8 Oct
2008
8 Oct
'08
8:28 p.m.
On 8 Oct 2008 at 22:08, Randy Dawson wrote:
I remember reading it, and "Snoopy"
A deck of FORMAT statements, with carriage control for mona lisa for the ovetyping
(CR with no LF)
I seem to remember that FORTRAN on many systems used the first
character of a PRINT/WRITE statement as "carriage control". A "1"
caused a page eject (actually a skip on channel 1 in the carriage
control tape.) Similarly, other numbers caused skips to other
channels--woe betide you if you forgot to put a perforation in each
of the 12 channels--a skip in an unperfed channel would enpty a box
of paper really quickly. A blank was the usual character for single-
spaced output. You could also punch a tape so that a skip was
executed over the perforation, but single-spaced output otherwise.
"+" kept the paper from advancing, I believe. This is all from
memory--I'd have to check to be sure.
Cheers,
Chuck