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The construction ‘@"abc"’ converts the enclosed string to its ASCII representation. For example, in C and C++ ‘@"abc"’ will be output as ‘"\141\142\143"’.
In FORTRAN and RATFOR, no such simple mechanism exists in the language, so a function call is issued. For example, the previous example would be output as ‘ASCIIstr('abc')’. The user is responsible for defining the function ‘ASCIIstr’. The name of this function can be changed by the style-file entry ‘ASCII_fcn’. See ASCII_fcn.
If the native character set of one’s machine is ASCII, the conversion will not be done unless the ‘-A’ command-line option is used. See -A_.