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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Namelist Interpreter
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 03:53:44 EDT
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> > Help!  Does anyone have routines that mimic in any way
> > the namelist feature of VMS and IBM Fortran?
> 
>   We have implemented a limited NAMELIST capability here. ...
> Unfortunately, ours is implemented as a subroutine library, which means
> syntax changes in your FORTRAN program will be required in order to use it.
> (Any other method would require compiler hacking anyway, I suppose).

Some compiler hacking, perhaps.  Somebody (Stu Feldman?) stuck items in the
"f77" grammar and I/O statement handling code to support NAMELIST; however,
they never got around to writing (or, at least, releasing) the support
library routines.  The people at AT&T-IS (formerly at the Bell Labs UNIX
System Development Laboratory, formerly at..., formerly at...) and the
people doing the 4.3BSD version of "f77" finally wrote, or at least released
(or will release, presumably, in the cae of 4.3BSD) the needed library
routines.  I don't know how much in the way of fixes to the compiler, or
changes (as opposed to additions) to the "f77" I/O library were needed to
make it work.

	Guy Harris