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From: khb@chiba.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: HP-UX f77 namelist problems
Keywords: fortran, frustration
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Date: 14 Jun 89 04:42:29 GMT
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In article <4654@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> schell@iris.ucdavis.edu (Stephan Schell) writes:
>I have a problem using namelists on Hewlett-Packard's 9000/825 under HP-UX
>3.0 that I have not encountered on other machines (e.g., VAXen). ...
>
>OS release and version info: HP-UX A.B3.10 B
>Here is file "test.f".  Typing "f77 -a -K -o test test.f" produces 
>no warnings. (check for anything that is non-ANSI according to HP).

Well, NAMELIST is not in x3.9-1978 (aka fortran 77) so file a bug
against the non-ansi detection :>
>
>Here is the result of typing "test".  
>*** FORTRAN I/O ERROR 907: ERROR IN LIST-DIRECTED I/O READ OF CHARACTER DATA
>( 0)  0x00007128   IO_DED + 0x250
>( 1)  0x00004d14   FTN_F_RSNE + 0x154
>( 2)  0x00002ed0   test + 0x128
>
>So, what did I do wrong, or have I found a bug, or are the namelist standards
>too vague to make a determination here?

There is no NAMELIST in the "old" standard. so anything a vendor does
is "ok". Your code happens to run on any sensible namelist
implementation (vax, sun, lahey, univac for starters). So I would file
a bug report.


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