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|    Lynn McGuire to Lawrence D'Oliveiro    |
|    Re: converting a 700,000+ line Fortran 7    |
|    14 Apr 25 23:50:32    |
      XPost: comp.lang.c++       From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com              On 4/13/2025 6:10 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:       > On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 17:59:26 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:       >       >> And don't forget that we spent a lot of time updating the code by       >> converting all of the Hollerith characters to character strings.       >       > 34HSee, that I would have left alone.              Got rid of a few nasty bugs like:               iword = 6Habcdef              Lynn              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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