smw@maxwell ( Steven Winikoff ) (02/23/90)
A couple of days ago, I posted the following: > A user on our M/120 would like to read a file using f77, but he's having > a problem with backslashes in the input. > > It seems that MIPS f77 accepts C-style escapes (eg \n, \t, etc., > especially including \\); moreover, it interprets these in the input > stream! The result, of course, is that this user is losing part of his > data. I've since done some more research, and I've discovered that f77 had little if anything to do with the real problem. (Next time I won't be so quick to believe everything users tell me! :-) In fact the user in question was using Fortran with embedded SQL, under ingres. Sure enough, it was ingres that was interepreting escape sequences and eating part of his data. f77 is blameless! (Now if anyone knows how to stop ingres from doing that, please let me know!) - Steven ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven Winikoff smw@maxwell.concordia.ca Software Analyst Dept. of Computing services Concordia University voice: (514) 848-7619 Montreal, Quebec, Canada (10:00-18:00 EST)