[Info-vax] decnet guide

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <KjPoUJgR4h8M at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) 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...
> 
>    Had tons of F77 code on RSX-11M, don't recall that limitation.  In
>    fact, it seemed to go away before DEC released Fortran 4+ (F77 before
>    it was standardized).

No contradiction.  The STANDARD had a maximum length of 6 characters.  
Vendors could and did offer extensions.  This was a common one.  Again, 
if the standard says something is a maximum, for the vendor it's a 
minimum.  :-)