Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!watstat!dmurdoch
From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MS-Fortran versus Sidekick Plus
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Date: 27 Mar 89 20:06:45 GMT
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Reply-To: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
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I have an old program compiled under Microsoft Fortran (version 3.x or 4, I
think) that has worked fine for a long time.  Just recently I bought Sidekick 
Plus, and find it has broken my program.

What happens is that when the program tries to read a line from standard input,
using something simple like
  READ(*,*) i,j,x,l,m
where i,j,l,m are integers and x is real,
it is never satisfied - it keeps prompting (with a CR/LF) for more input, even
after 5 items have been entered.  It's really bizarre, because it still works 
fine if I remove SKPlus from memory.

In case it makes a difference, I think the program is compiled to emulate
an 80x87 on machines (like mine) without one.  The machine is a clone 386,
with nothing else resident to confuse things.  I'm running MS-DOS 3.3.

Does anybody have any ideas for fixes for this?  Even explanations?

Duncan Murdoch