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From: pbickers@tamaluit.phys.uidaho.edu (Paul Bickerstaff)
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Subject: Re: f77 compiler bug (both MIPS and SGI)
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Date: 25 Jun 91 21:43:22 GMT
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In article <1991Jun20.213433.24193@dsd.es.com>, jason@dsd.es.com (Jason
S. Ehrhart) writes:
> 
> There is a -vms flag, but the documentation doesn't get into detail 
> about what is VMS-Compatible. It states that Mips provides full VMS Fortran
> compatibility to the extent possible without the VMS os or VAX data
> representation. A little ambiguous there, perhaps it will be made
> clearer in a future release of the doc set. Originally, the -vms
> flag did very little. It does more now. But obviously not as much as
> you'd like.
> 
Can anybody provide details on what the -vms flag really does?

The man pages suggest it does very little:
          -vms
               Cause the runtime system to behave like VMS Fortran
               with regard to interpreting carriage control on unit 6.
(We're still on RISCos 4.51 and fortran 2.11)

If there's "more now" I'd like to know.
Thanks.

Paul Bickerstaff                 Internet: pbickers@tamaluit.phys.uidaho.edu
Physics Dept., Univ. of Idaho    Phone:    (208) 885 6809
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