[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Bob Koehler]

In article <hdq5rb$gj6$3 at naig.caltech.edu>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> 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.  

   Porting code between PDP-10 (5 7-bit characters per INTEGER) and
   byte oriented systems (4 8-bit characters per INTEGER) was a
   lesson in Fortran-IV portability issues.