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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   
      
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