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From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: Is the INCLUDE statement standard?
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.143343.2521@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
References: <1990Aug29.160951.19827@athena.mit.edu> <MAINE.90Aug29222643@altair.dfrf.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 90 14:33:43 GMT

In article <MAINE.90Aug29222643@altair.dfrf.nasa.gov> maine@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Richard Maine) writes:
>Almost all systems support something roughly equivalent.  The exact
>syntax varies somewhat, however.  In my experience, the most widely
>adopted syntax looks like
>       include 'filename'
>with the include starting in column 7 or later just like a fortran
>statement, and with quotes around the file name.
>Compilers that I personally have used with this exact syntax include
>Elxsi, Sun, Vax, Iris 4D (mips), IBM RS6000, and Lahey F77L (for IBM PCs
>running DOS).

Add to that list Apollo's machines.  (The Apollo compiler supports both
this syntax and one that requires passing your code through the C
preprocessor.  Yecchh!)

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca