[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Arne Vajh?j <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>> Even so, a lot was done in Fortran 66 because that was what
>> was available.  Storing one character per INTEGER array element
>> was inefficient but usually worked.  
 
> One - not two or four??

If you want to move around individual characters, as most text
processing does, then one.  If you just need to read them in
and write them back out, then two or four (or more).
(CDC stored 10 six bit characters in a 60 bit word.)

-- glen