[Info-vax] decnet guide

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <MJPNi$23wBEk at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes: 

> In article <nu689v$2j52$1 at news.kjsl.com>,
helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))

> > 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 standard in Fortran 77 was a maximum of 6 characters for variable 
names.  As some pundit said, what is a maximum for the standard is a 
minimum for the compiler.  :-)