[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Bob Koehler]

In article <HaadnTbRQOj5zZnWnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d at earthlink.com>, "John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> "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

   Yep.  But then I helped her fix the example from the book to run
   without so I could be sure I wouldn't have to use that qualifier 
   in production code.