[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Bob Koehler]

In article <HuGdnQdvw_6WZJzWnZ2dnUVZ_uOdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:

> VAX Fortran was Fortran IV and my recollection is that it did 
> support a character data type.

   Not for long.  VAX Fortran was extended to almost the Fortran-77
   standard from the release we had under VMS 1.x on our first 11/780.

   It was updated to support the Fortran-77 standard sometime in the
   VMS 2.x timeframe.