<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 2, 2018, at 10:19 AM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <<a href="mailto:jg@jordi.guillaumes.name" class="">jg@jordi.guillaumes.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><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;"><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=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </o:p></span></div><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="">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.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><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><br class=""></div><div>So for example:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>WRITE(5,10)</div><div>10<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>FORMAT (' Hello'//' there')</div><br class=""><div class="">would produce (without the indent)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hello</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>there</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(with a blank line between the two text lines, corresponding to the first / in the format). Note that each record begins with carriage control; the leading space in each of those two strings is the "single space" carriage control character.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>paul</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>