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From: cdb@hpclcdb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: HP Fortran problems
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Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 15:46:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 15:46:01 1987
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In addition to Shankar's advice about contacting the Response Center, I
also posted the following in comp.lang.fortran : 

Unfortunately, the Fortran 66 standard was too weak to really standardize
very much.  Fortran 77 added the CHARACTER data type to handle these kind
of problems.  Actually, the official Fortran 66 standard did not allow
quoted character strings.  It had Hollerith constants, but even they were
only allowed "in the argument list of a CALL statement and in the data
initialization statement" (ANSI X3.9-1966, p.10).

At least that shows a way around your problem - you could roll it back to
real F66, by converting the quoted strings to Hollerith (at least in DATA
statements).  The previous response (at least on my machine) suggested
moving such things forward to F77, using CHARACTER variables to hold character
data.  Strange idea, very un-Fortranlike! :-) You might note that Hollerith
constants were removed by the 77 standard, and are unlikely to reappear in 
the standard (though most implementations will continue to have them). In
practice, I'd do whichever looked easiest.

							Carl Burch
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