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From: jf@threel.co.uk (John Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: I/O
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Date: 30 Jan 91 11:15:24 GMT
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mkh6317@rigel.tamu.edu (HOWARD, MATTHEW KENDALL) asks:

> Ok, ok. Uncle.  Since I don't have a copy of the "standard" I
> will have to take your word that "equivalencing a character
> variable to a non-character variable" is a violation of the
> standard.    Now tell me why.

Why the sneer quotes round standard?

Reason: because it's very unportable.  Why?

1) Endian problems
2) Word-length problems
3) Character-code problems

--John