[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[John Reagan]

"Bob Koehler" <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message 
news:6T9wl4U+lLuT at eisner.encompasserve.org...
> In article <hdum39$sv$3 at naig.caltech.edu>, glen herrmannsfeldt 
> <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>>
>
>> K&R C allowed changing of character constants, though that feature
>> was removed in the ANSI standard, it is still supported by some
>> compilers.
>
>   The last time I saw a K&R book, it had the ANSI standard covered,
>   and examples where string constants were written over.  This, of
>   course, ACCVIO'd on our Alpha and I had to explain to the programmer
>   that one some systems constants really are.
>

$ CC /ASSUME=WRITABLE_STRING_LITERALS

John