SUMMARY
The section on "Carriage Control" on Page 78 of the "Microsoft FORTRAN
Reference" manual for Version 5.0 states the following:
When formatted I/O is used to transfer a record to a terminal
device, such as screen or printer, the first character of that
record is interpreted as a carriage control character, and is not
printed.
This is not true for printers connected to LPT2. Thus, the carriage
control characters listed on Page 79 of the FORTRAN reference
manual will not be interpreted properly for the printers connected to
LPT2.
The following program is supposed to form feed and then print "5
years". However, it does not form feed and it prints "15 years":
open (10, file='LPT2', status='OLD')
write(10,200)
200 format ('15 years')
end
To get the desired behavior, either change 'LPT2' to 'LPT1' in the
OPEN statement and connect the printer to LPT1, or use the CHAR
function to send the carriage control characters to the printer on
LPT2. The following code sample demonstrates the second workaround:
open (10, file='LPT2', status='OLD')
write(10,200) char(12) ! Form Feed - ASCII 12
200 format (a1,'5 years')
end