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From: edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Eddie Wyatt)
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Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C strings
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Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 09:59:59 EDT
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   In Fortrash, Integers are actually longs (if you pass pointers to
integers instead of pointers to longs and have it still work, it is because
sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) on the  machine you are working on)

   Fortrash strings (I think) have the format first four(?) bytes
holds the size of the string followed by the characters in the string.

-- 
					Eddie Wyatt

e-mail: edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu