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Walt Mankowski is a recovering ivory tower computer scientist who recently completed a postdoc working with biologists to process and visualize terabytes of 2D and 3D time lapse microscope images. In his past life he spent 10 years as a COBOL programmer at a major cable home shopping network. He enjoys Perl, regular expressions, high-performance computing, and Futurama.
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To be honest, the system I used 99% of the time used free-format code, so this never came up. But everything I can find online says that a continuation was indicated by a "-" in column 7, which meant the current line should be appended to the previous line. I can't find anything to indicate that column 72 was treated special. Perhaps you're confusing it with another language?