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From: tundra@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: FORTRAN/"C" Char Descriptors
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Date: 8 May 90 13:24:00 GMT
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>>>Does anybody know a way to DISABLE CHARACTER STRING LENGTH 
>>>passing from Fortran to "C" subroutines?  

Oops...  Answered my own question...

Apparently there is a Fortran compiler option to support
the Fortran/"C" problem of passing character strings.
If you compile with:
			fc +E3
Character descripter length parameters are moved to the 
end of the parameter list.

Other people suggested passing integer arrays from Fortran,
or using the "$ALIAS" compiler directive, both of which are
good workable methods.

Thanks for all who replied...

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