Lahey Support
08-15-2003, 01:24 AM
and nX duplicates TRn, as I found in the 'Essential LF90 rationale' on Lahey's homepage
Peter Fokker
Alan Miller wrote:
> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:37:57 -0500
> From: Terence Wright [address removed]
>
> Intro:
> [I am generating self-answering e-mailed questionnaires
> with automatic e-mailed replies and all I know about HTML
> came in as examples with the mail, both junk and goodies].
>
> So, I was casually seeing how Lahey's Home page was put
> together by examining the HTML code, (lots of conditional
> parsing there to accommodate different browsers!),
> WHEN...(finally he gets to it...!) I saw a surprising line!
>
> It was a statement that elf90 does NOT support:-
>
> "BN, BZ, D, H, P, S, and X edit descriptors"
>
> This set me thinking. Finally, I ask you out there;
> How can you live without BN, BZ and X? And EXPECIALLY X?
> The creation of dynamic format statements using character
> string arrays (subject of MANY Forum messages) REQUIRES a
> variable length empty space filler to be definable; the other
> two options save a heap of programming to achieve the effect
> they provide. (I cheerfully condemn D,H,P and S to the flames).
>
> Is someone DELIBERATELY trying to make life difficult!
>
> Troubled, (again),
> Terence Wright
>
> The answer is simple - as all ELF90 experts know.
> You use T.
> Instead of FORMAT( 8X, ...
> FORMAT( T9, ...
> It's much easier to line things up with T then if you have
> to add up all of those: 3X,F10.2,4X,I3,G13.5, ...
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan.Miller @ vic.cmis.CSIRO.AU = Alan Miller, Honorary Research Fellow (Retired)
> CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences, Melbourne, Australia
> Phone: +61 3 9545-8036 Fax: +61 3 9545-8080 URL: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~milleraj
> Mail: CSIRO CMIS, Private Bag 10, Clayton South MDC, Vic. 3169, Australia
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Peter Fokker
Alan Miller wrote:
> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:37:57 -0500
> From: Terence Wright [address removed]
>
> Intro:
> [I am generating self-answering e-mailed questionnaires
> with automatic e-mailed replies and all I know about HTML
> came in as examples with the mail, both junk and goodies].
>
> So, I was casually seeing how Lahey's Home page was put
> together by examining the HTML code, (lots of conditional
> parsing there to accommodate different browsers!),
> WHEN...(finally he gets to it...!) I saw a surprising line!
>
> It was a statement that elf90 does NOT support:-
>
> "BN, BZ, D, H, P, S, and X edit descriptors"
>
> This set me thinking. Finally, I ask you out there;
> How can you live without BN, BZ and X? And EXPECIALLY X?
> The creation of dynamic format statements using character
> string arrays (subject of MANY Forum messages) REQUIRES a
> variable length empty space filler to be definable; the other
> two options save a heap of programming to achieve the effect
> they provide. (I cheerfully condemn D,H,P and S to the flames).
>
> Is someone DELIBERATELY trying to make life difficult!
>
> Troubled, (again),
> Terence Wright
>
> The answer is simple - as all ELF90 experts know.
> You use T.
> Instead of FORMAT( 8X, ...
> FORMAT( T9, ...
> It's much easier to line things up with T then if you have
> to add up all of those: 3X,F10.2,4X,I3,G13.5, ...
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan.Miller @ vic.cmis.CSIRO.AU = Alan Miller, Honorary Research Fellow (Retired)
> CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences, Melbourne, Australia
> Phone: +61 3 9545-8036 Fax: +61 3 9545-8080 URL: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~milleraj
> Mail: CSIRO CMIS, Private Bag 10, Clayton South MDC, Vic. 3169, Australia
>
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