Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!tj From: tj@utcs.UUCP (tj) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.lang.f77 Subject: Re: stupid problem in fortran Message-ID: <614@utcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 10:13:10 EST Article-I.D.: utcs.614 Posted: Tue Apr 23 10:13:10 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Apr-85 11:35:05 EST References: <370@sdchema.UUCP> Reply-To: tj@utcs.UUCP (tj) Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX Lines: 6 Xref: utcs net.micro.pc:3663 net.lang.f77:266 Summary: well, I thought I knew... but I didn't... I recently had an experience with IBM mainframe fortran where I coded cout = 'x' // cout and instead of getting an x concatinated in front I got the first character replaced with the x. IBM documents this as a restriction, I call it and yours a bug!!! tjones