[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Bob Koehler]

In article <S7CdnWGof73x-lvSnZ2dnUVZ_oSdnZ2d at insightbb.com>, "John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> I was talking about the compiler automatically building the descriptors on 
> your behalf.  Pascal and BASIC do it all the time.  You have %STDESCR in 
> Fortran, etc. 

   Fortran builds fixed length text descriptors for you every time
   you pass CHARACTER type.