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From: calvin@dinkum.wpd.sgi.com (Calvin H. Vu)
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Subject: Re: IRIXv3.3.1 FORTRAN I/O BUG
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Date: 3 Dec 90 18:19:25 GMT
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In <9012030315.AA02428@frodo.Physics.McGill.CA> loki@physics.mcgill.ca (Loki Jorgenson Rm421) writes:

| I believe I've discovered an Iris Fortran i/o bug.  It only occurs when 
| printing out numbers smaller than E-100, so it only happens with double 
| precision (real*8).  If the number is smaller than 1.E-100 the I/O routine 
| 'forgets' to print the letter E.  
	I traced this problem back to the version we had 3 years ago.
As far as I know it probably exists in the original Sys V Fortran runtime
I/O but somehow nobody has run into it yet so you are the first person who
reported it.

Thanks for letting us know,

- calvin
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