[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Paul Sture]

In article <NT4LxBIYAiSg at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <hdsjeh$9t9$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>, m.kraemer at gsi.de 
> (Michael Kraemer) writes:
> > 
> > If you have to concatenate substrings of lengths unknown at
> > compile time, the only clean solution is dynamic memory.
> > I think this is a very common problem in text processing.
> 
>    If you have 2GB virtual memory and string operations limitted to
>    65KB, you just allocate a 65KB static buffer.
> 
>    And when that fails, you do something fancy.

I used to use 32KB static string buffers, with RMS maximum record sizes 
in mind.

Using COBOL SORT, sorting records within a program was so easy that you 
didn't need to bother with large arrays, and it was suitable for VAXen 
with only 4MB RAM.

-- 
Paul Sture
c.o.v