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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <3024@lanl.gov>
Date: 30 Aug 88 17:40:05 GMT
References: <11800003@modcomp>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <11800003@modcomp>, by joe@modcomp.UUCP:
> 
> Well, yes.  My understanding is that most of the new features of 8x are
> tied to the "new source form", which is incompatible with the existing
> source form.  [...]

The only feature of the 8x proposal which required the free source was
the free source form itself.  The source form was an independent
issue.

J. Giles
Los Alamos