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From: chris2@garfield.MUN.EDU (Chris Paulse)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: VAX/VMS Fortran 77 extensions
Message-ID: <5272@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Date: 3 Sep 89 00:45:48 GMT
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
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I was recently sent some Fortran code which was written for
VAX/VMS that included some extensions that made our bsd f77 
compiler hiccup.  The particular extensions that did this were

  o  comments at the end of a line indicated as ...

     SOURCE GOES HERE  ! this is a comment

  o  the do/enddo construct

Does there exist a preprocessor for this flavor of F77 which
will easily convert it back to vanilla f77?

Chris Paulse
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