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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: FORTRAN-4 question
Message-ID: <5217@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 12 Apr 91 06:34:11 GMT
References: <9093.2802d2f5@jetson.uh.edu>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <9093.2802d2f5@jetson.uh.edu>, acsls@jetson.uh.edu (Eddie A. McCreary) writes:
> 1)  WRITE(6'60)FOO,BAR
>    ========^
>  Why is there an ' there instead of a comma??  

Because a comma would be WRONG.  The 60 is not a format label,
it is a record number.  Unit 6 is presumably connected to a file
of unformatted fixed length records.


> 2) CALL MOVE(FOO,BAR,&1270)
>    ==================^
>   What does the ampersand do??

It says that 1270 is not a number, it is a statement label.
The MOVE subroutine will have somewhere in it an "alternate return"
statement, so that one possibility is for MOVE to return to statement
1270.

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