Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!soma!gonzalez From: gonzalez@soma.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.masscomp Subject: SCCS question Message-ID: <8707081847.AA25826@TMC.EDU> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 14:31:56 EDT Article-I.D.: TMC.8707081847.AA25826 Posted: Wed Jul 8 14:31:56 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 01:59:28 EDT Sender: masscomp@soma.bcm.tmc.edu Lines: 26 Approved: masscomp@soma.bcm.tmc.edu (AA02560); Wed, 8 Jul 87 15:52:52 EDT To: info-unix@brl.arpa Cc: masscomp@soma.bcm.tmc.edu, gonzalez@vax.bbn.com I am attempting to put some (somebody else's) FORTRAN source under SCCS. Being a C hacker, I am somewhat unfamiliar with how f77 stores strings. In C, a convenient way to embed an SCCS string, for later detection by what(1) and strings(1), is to begin each source file with: static char * sccsid = "%W% (...) %G%"; The closest I've been able to get with f77 is to declare a character array in the first function of each source file, and then assign to it: character*72 sccsid . . sccsid = '%W% (...) %G%' There several problems with this. First of all, strings(1) doesn't find the string unless you give it the - switch, because it is unitialized data. Secondly, the function in each source file that has this is doing busy work (the assignment) each time it is called. I first thought that the parameter mechanism was what I wanted, but it appears to be more like #define (the string appears *nowhere* in the object file). Any ideas? -Jim Gonzalez BBN Laboratories, Inc. gonzalez@vax.bbn.com