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From: michael@crown.as.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Characters in List I/O and FORTRAN standard
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Date: 7 Jun 91 23:58:52 GMT
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In a more complex (;-) program I have a problem that can be reduced to the following 
question:

How should the following program react according to the standard if the input is 'abc'
(including the quotes)?

	READ( 5, * ) I
	END

I'd expect it to bomb so that I can react with IOSTAT or the like. Both VAX/VMS and SUN behave
like that but on the Cray with CFT77 that seems legal. So which machine is violating the 
standard?


Thanks,
Michael Lemke

Astronomy, UT Austin, TX