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Subject: Standards questions
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Date: 27 Mar 90 20:18:03 GMT
Reply-To: states@tech.nlm.nih.gov (David States)
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A couple of questions regarding Fortran8X / Fortran90 standards:

1) Is the use of the lower case alphabet included?
Other extended alphabet characters in symbol names?

2) What is the limit on the length of symbol names?

3) Are there intrinsic functions defined to handle interaction with
the user/command environment (the equivalent of C getarg, iargc, getenv)?

4) Is there a standard inter-language interface defined
(Fortran/C in particular)?

5) Is a draft of the current standards available via the net? 

			David States