[Info-vax] decnet guide

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-10-19 15:24, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <nu689v$2j52$1 at news.kjsl.com>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
>>
>> OK, in Fortran77 the maximum length of
>> a variable was 6 characters, and the same goes for DECnet node names,
>> but I don't think that DECnet is written in Fortran.
>
>    In who's compiler, or to what tandard?  I knew a lot of Fortran-IV
>    (aka 66) compilers with such limitiations, but never -77.

The DEC F77 compiler for the PDP-11 at least have a 6 character 
limitation on variable names...

	Johnny

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