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From: "Le Baron O. Ferguson" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: snobol4 question
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First I thank all the nice people who responded to my query about the demise
of snobol and offered to answer my question.  I am glad it is not dead and
this is the proper forum for it.

My problem is that I am using snobol4 to send control codes (among other things)
to a printer.  I assign to the variable OUTPUT.  The output of the program
is directed to the printer by /o=lpt2: on the command line.  The problem is
that the assignment to OUTPUT causes a newline to also be sent.  I can program
around this but it is aukward.  In PASCAL we have WRITELN and WRITE, and the
latter does not append a newline automatically.  In C, printf simply does not
send a newline unless you tell it to do so.  Is there a corresponding mechanism
in snobol4?

I hope I am not wasting anyone's time.  I looked for this in the "green" book
and also the extensive documentation with snobol4.  If there is a FAC I should
read please just point me in its direction.

Tnanks in advance.

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