[Info-vax] Removing the leading $ from commands in a new DCL language

[Bob Koehler]

In article <mi3rvr$pqq$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> The IBM 704, where Fortran originated, read a card row into two 36
> bit words. Columns 73-80 were ignored.  That led to Fortran 
> ignoring 73-80, and it propagated from there.

   You cannot store 72 characters in 2 36 bit words.