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From: alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: VAX/SGI -> IBM RISC/6000 source format problem with FORTRAN code
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.091839.943@am.sublink.org>
Date: 21 Oct 90 09:18:39 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.140659.34573@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
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In <1990Oct18.140659.34573@eagle.wesleyan.edu> hoberoi@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
	...
>problem : the source is tab delimited and extends over 72 columns and will
>therefore not be accepted by xlf. Replacing tabs with spaces will not work as,
>the fixed format for xlf will ignore colums beyond 72. Free format source on 

I believe xlf has an option to set the linelength it will accept to
something else than 72.  Anyway it should be pretty easy to define
a source-to-source transformation, say by piping the tab-expanded
source into awk running something like (NOT tested):

length($0)>72 { print substr($0,1,72);
				print "     ." substr($0,73)
			  }
(if all length are no more than 138, with obvious extensions to more
continuation-lines if needed).
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