[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Ken Fairfield]

On Nov 18, 9:12 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <152486ab-1181-403e-b2c3-3cfc0be06... at m33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>, Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> writes:
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> > Beg to differ: VAX Fortran was FORTRAN 77 (yes, upper-cased until the
> > Fortran 90 standard) from the first release I saw at VAX/VMS V2.3.  It
> > certainly supported older IBM-isms from FORTRAN IV (or more likely,
> > the IBM FORTRAN H and/or G compilers), as well as extensions from
> > other vendors.
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>    As of VMS 2.2, the Fortran compiler did not support NAMELIST, and
>    IBM extenstion we used quite heavily.  Life was easier when NAMELIST
>    was added around 3.0 or so.

NAMELIST was not part of the F77 standard.  Indeed, various
*different*
implementations of NAMELIST existed across different  vendor's
compilers.
F90 finally did add NAMELIST to the standard.

   -Ken