Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!eplrx7!leipold From: leipold@eplrx7.uucp (Walt Leipold) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Is the INCLUDE statement standard? Message-ID: <1990Aug30.150548.27103@eplrx7.uucp> Date: 30 Aug 90 15:05:48 GMT References: <1990Aug29.160951.19827@athena.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: DuPont Engineering Physics Lab Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: louie.udel.edu In article maine@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Richard Maine) writes: >I really don't recall whether IBM mainframes do anything comparable. >(Perhaps it's a mental block that protects my sanity by erasing >most of the memories of the horrid years that I had to put up with >IBM mainframes). Yes, recent IBM mainframe compilers (e.g., FORTVS) have an INCLUDE statement, but I found it completely useless because INCLUDE wasn't recursive (i.e., no INCLUDEd file could contain an INCLUDE statement). Another *fine* example of IBM's attention to detail... -- "As long as you've lit one candle, Walt Leipold you're allowed to curse the darkness." (leipolw%esvax@dupont.com) -- -- The UUCP Mailer