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From: 2011_552@uwovax.uwo.ca (Terry Gaetz (UWO Astronomy); Bitnet: gaetz@uwovax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: ABSOFT Compiler
Message-ID: <1618@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 14 Feb 89 00:13:44 GMT
References: <Feb.10.17.56.51.1989.14897@topaz.rutgers.edu> <324@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
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Organisation: University of Western Ontario, Canada

In article <324@Portia.Stanford.EDU>, jrburley@Portia.Stanford.EDU (James Burley) writes:
> []
>   Could anyone with experience using the Absoft FORTRAN compiler tell me if
> it supports 32 character variable names? I have FORTRAN CODE WRITTEN FOR a VAX
> that I would like to port to the Amiga. Also any comments on the Absoft
> compiler would be apreciated.
> 
> Jim Burley

The manual says that it will support 31 character names for variable names.
The names can be case-sensitive or folded to uppercase depending on the
setting of a compiler switch.  Only the first 6 characters of function names,
subroutine names, block data, and common block names are significant; these
are all folded to uppercase.

Terry Gaetz     gaetz@uwovax.uwo.ca     gaetz@uwovax.BITNET