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Characters are only allowed in character
arrays. When a cell of the array is referenced, it is automatically
coerced into a integer representation for manipulation by the integer
operations. When a value is stored into a character array, it is
coerced from a standard 16-bit integer into an 8-bit character (by
truncating the upper eight bits).
Fred G. Martin
Fri Mar 29 17:44:15 EST 1996