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Article #465Re: Fortran Carriage control statements
From: l... Liam R. E. Quin
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1989 21:35
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1989 21:35
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M...@LCS.MIT.Edu (Michael A. Patton) writes: >[..] one of the expense accounts was entitled: > "Comptroller and assistants" >[truncated >Somehow the report didn't go over so well! I changed it to truncate >that field to 17 characters and leave 2 blanks, that worked better. Someone I knew at University (Warwick, England) left to join the computer typesetting industry. I saw him a couple of years later, and he told me that one of the jobs he had done was a directory, which the customer required to be set in Helvetica. Now, in small sizes, Helvetica "rn" looks like "m"... So he was not too surprised when a someone complained about her listing. She was called Mrs. Burns. [If jrnl is out there, maybe he can correct me...] Lee -- Liam R. Quin, l...@sq.com Until Dec. 20th (visiting sq, not an employee) After Dec 20, Unixsys (UK) Ltd, Knutsford, UK -- +44 565 50021 At home: +44 925 831084 (0830 GMT to midnight GMT only please...) rn: .signature: cannot open: no such fire or dirigible
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!sq!lee From: l...@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Fortran Carriage control statements Message-ID: <1989Dec16.213539.5038@sq.sq.com> Date: 16 Dec 89 21:35:39 GMT References: <2428@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <MAP.89Dec11202521@gaak.LCS.MIT.Edu> Reply-To: l...@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) Organization: Unixsys (UK) Ltd Lines: 24 Posted: Sat Dec 16 22:35:39 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit