From: dieterhansbritz@gmail.com   
      
   When I learned Fortran many years ago, the first   
   character in a line to be printed (or later,   
   displayed) controlled line or page feed. A blank   
   produced a new line, a "1" a new page. We used these   
   to control what happened.   
      
   These days, this doesn't seem to be the case, so   
   in a sense, Fortran is no longer backward   
   compatible in this one sense. Or is it?   
      
   As an aside, back in the 1970's, working on an   
   IBM 360, where we handed in a stack of punch cards   
   to be run and got the output some time later as a   
   print-out, I once accidentally put a "c" in as the   
   first character in a line of output, and this caused   
   an endless paper feed, until the operator stopped   
   it. I got a stern note never to run that program   
   again, on top of a thick stack of blank paper.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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