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From: drb@msu.edu (Dennis Boone)
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Subject: Re: counted characters in strings
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 > And when the Hollerith constant required 133 characters, how many coud
 > reliably count all of them?

Such a long Hollerith string would be uncommon, I think.  The main
purpose would seem to be headers on a printed report.  It appears that
the 'T' specifier wasn't available in the early 60s versions of IBM
FORTRAN, but it certainly was there in FORTRAN 66.

De
[Early Fortran mostly read and wrote to tape files so who knows what long
strings people might have needed.  Either way, I think we've beaten this
topic long enough. -John]