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From: deb@kea.wpd.sgi.com (Deb Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Undocumented Feature
Summary: fixed in next release
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Date: 8 May 90 22:32:59 GMT
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In article <1990May5.131121.8226@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, afleming@watsci.waterloo.edu (Allan Fleming) writes:
> Under 3.2 using the f77 compiler - when porting a program from VMS I 
> discovered that doing the following:
> 
> f77 -vms test.f
> 
> caused the -onetime option to be invoked - producing rather non-VMS like
> behaviour. 
> 
> (please don't say RTFM - I did and the manual doesn't mention that 
> -vms is now -vms_cc and that -vms no longer appears to be a valid 
> switch, if the manuals agreed with the online man pages or the compiler
> warned me that -vms was no longer supported I may have saved a fair bit 
> of time)
> 
> Allan Fleming


Well, you're right.  All I can say is "fixed in next release." Of course,
if you use the documented -vms_cc, you don't get the bug.

					-Deb
					 deb@sgi.com
 					 Deborah Ryan Caruso @ Silicon Graphics