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Citations:zigamorph

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English citations of zigamorph

Noun: "(computing slang) The text character with hexadecimal value 0xff, used as a string separator or terminator"

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  • 1975 Michael Kennedy, Martin B. Solomon, "Ten statement Fortran plus Fortran IV"
    The zigamorph is a character which is a combination of 6 different keypunch characters and is not valid when using Fortran compilers other than WATFIV.
  • 1975 John B. Moore, "WATFIV: Fortran programming with the WATFIV compiler"
    The hole pattern for a zigamorph is 12-11-0-7-8-9. The symbols following a zigamorph and preceding either a semicolon or column 73 are considered to be a comment.
  • 2008, "Jeff Jonas", Re: TOPS-10 (on newsgroup alt.folklore.computers)
    (I'm using // as the printable version of the zigamorph 12-11-0-7-8-9 multipunch that resulted in the fence character 0xff which allowed comments on the same card as a statement).