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From: flatau@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (flatau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: How to load executables and transfer variable name to FORTRAN
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Date: 8 Aug 90 17:35:35 GMT
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Say, I have a file "prog.f"

     program main
     character*8 name
     ... possibly missing code ... (see explanation below)
     open(8,file=name, status='old')
     stop
     end

Compile it as (UNIX):

f77 prog.f -o prog

and execute "prog" with a parameter, e.g.

prog 'file.dat'

Is the above possible (loading step) ?
Is there a way to assign "name" to 'file.dat'  from within
a fortran code ? How should I modify "prog.f" to make it work ?

flatau@handel.cs.colostate.edu