[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Paul Sture]

In article <5lQIIV6VLkFZ at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> 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.

ISTR V2.3, and that would be in 1981, if memory serves correctly.

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Paul Sture
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