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From: richard@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Richard Brittain)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: An exercise in futility
Summary: HCX/UX reads tape records into character variables
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Date: 20 Jan 89 04:57:36 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@calvin.ee.cornell.edu.UUCP (Richard Brittain)
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	On our Harris HCX/UX system here, the only way to read data from a tape
into a fortran program is to pass a variable of type CHARACTER*NNN to the
library routine.  Of course, the maximum size for NNN is only about 1k,       
unless you hunt for the obscurely documented compiler switch which allows
it to be larger (thankfully, as large as most of our data tape records).
Now that is, to my mind, a non-intuitive use of a character variable and about
as non-portable as they come.

Richard Brittain,                   School of Elect. Eng.,  Upson Hall   
                                    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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