<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><br><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">I don’t think the slash is one of the ASA control characters </div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>It's not. Tim said it -- it indicates end of record. A FORMAT statement gives the layout for one or more records. The fields separated by commas specify the consecutive parts of a single record; each / is a record boundary. Also, the end of the FORMAT corresponds to the end of record. In the DEC implementation, for terminals, trailing $ meant "do not end the record", i.e., don't insert newline at this point. That was used for prompt strings in interactive applications written in FORTRAN.</div><div> </div></blockquote>Oh, I see it now. So it’s the equivalent for the PL/I ‘SKIP’ format idem. I stand corrected.<div><br></div></body></html>