Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ZORAC.ARPA!tim From: tim@ZORAC.ARPA (Tim Pointing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Pop-up Menus Message-ID: <8808101535.AA10789@zorac.ARPA> Date: 10 Aug 88 15:35:26 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 7 I think that you'll find that your problem is caused by the fortran compiler seeing the %f in the string and assuming that it is a C formatting request. See what happens if you replace it with "%%f" (i.e. double the '%'). Tim Pointing, DCIEM tim@zorac.arpa