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Subject: Re: Fortran 77 Style Guide (long, REPOST)
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Thursday, 13 Sep 1990 12:26:01 EDT
From: Jeff Boyd <BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
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If you wanted to manage your FORMATs a little more carfully, use
PARAMATERs, eg.

       PARAMETER (UNIT1=10,FMT1=1)

     1 FORMAT ( ... )

and later

       WRITE (UNIT1,FMT1)  var_list

providing your Fortran allows a named constant in the FMT option. I've
worked on some that didn't, but it's handy sometimes for managing odd
problems.