smw@maxwell.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff ) (02/21/90)
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. Since the data in question is the serials holdings database for all of our university libraries, this is more than just a minor nuisance! (We're in the process of moving our library support from a CDC Cyber system to the MIPS. Until now, it was going well :-( I've R'ed TFM, and I can't find anything. Is there any way to turn off escape sequences? Or is our user doomed to convert the files, changing all occurrences of \ to \\? (We're speaking of hundreds of thousands of records here!) Tune in tomorrow. Same bat time... :-) Seriously, any help, advice or kind words would be deeply appreciated. Thanks, - 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)