[Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

[Ken Cornetet]

You might be right. I've long ago mostly forgotten the nightmare that was FORTRAN carriage control, and the FORTRAN formatter in general.


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Koning [mailto:paulkoning at comcast.net] 
Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 2:39 PM
To: Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org>
Cc: Ken Cornetet <Ken.Cornetet at kimballelectronics.com>; simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game



> On Feb 2, 2018, at 2:26 PM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
> 
> Ken Cornetet wrote:
> ...
>> Also, given the FORMAT(/), I’ll also hazard a guess that TYPE did not 
>> automatically add a new line on whatever was printed. But that is 
>> just a guess.
> 
> I think your guess is correct.

I'm not so sure.  It may be a case of ensuring the carriage is at the left margin -- remember that Fortran carriage control would insert a line feed at the start of the record (if the record carriage control character is a space) but not a carriage return; that happens at end of record.  So if some previous operation left the carriage at some other spot on the page, you'd end up with weird looking output.  The / supplies <lf><cr> to ensure all is clean.

	paul