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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.