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	          FORMAT, a FORTRAN FORMAT Statement Generator
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	  Abstract:  The FORMAT program reads a sample form or a rough
	  version of messages, and generates FORTRAN FORMAT statements
	  which can be used by a FORTRAN program to reproduce the form
	  complete   with  embedded  variables,  or  to  generate  the
	  messages  with  lines   of   uniform   length.    The   case
	  conventions, the structure of the commands, and the meanings
	  of many of the commands which are recognized by  the  FORMAT
	  program  are identical to those accepted by the DECsystem-10
	  text processing program RUNOFF.  When text  containing  only
	  those  commands  which are recognized by both the FORMAT and
	  RUNOFF programs is processed by the FORMAT program, then the
	  use  of  the  resulting FORMAT statements generates the text
	  which would have been produced directly by RUNOFF.  Although
	  the FORMAT program provides many of the same capabilities as
	  RUNOFF, the FORMAT program is itself  written  in  a  system
	  independent subset of FORTRAN and is not an extended version
	  of RUNOFF.  If a RUNOFF capability is not described in  this
	  documentation,  then  this capability is not provided by the
	  FORMAT program.  In particular, the FORMAT program does  not
	  provide  any  paging,  footnoting,  indexing  or underlining
	  capabilities.