NAME

       get_common  - get the name of a file where a f77 common is
       defined.

SYNOPSIS

       get_common [-chv] -ddatabase common

DESCRIPTION

       get_common can be used to quickly see in what f77  include
       file  a certain f77 common is defined.  get_common queries
       a database generated with scan_commons(1).

OPTIONS

       -c     case sensitive search, default is off.


       -h, --help
              Shows a short description of every option.


       -v     show database version information. This information
              consists  of  the name of the user that has created
              this database, the machine and  system  name  where
              this  database was created on, the date of the last
              update  of  this  database,  and  the   directories
              stored.


       --version
              Shows the version number of get_common


       -ddatabase
              Name  of  the  database to query. If no database is
              given, the value of COMMON_DATABASE is checked.


       common The name of the common you wish to locate. If  this
              common  is  defined  in  multiple  files, all files
              where this common is defined will be shown.

COMPATIBILITY

       get_common has run under HP-UX 9 and 10, SGI  IRIX  5.2  &
       5.3, DEC OSF1, SunOs 4.1 and 4.3, Cray Unicos, IBM AIX 3.2
       & 4.1, Linux and MSDOS 6.2.  get_common also runs in a dos
       box under Windows 3.1, 3.11 and Win95.

ENVIRONMENT

       COMMON_DATABASE
              Points  to  the location of a common database. This
              environment variable is only used if the -ddatabase
              option is not given.

DISTRIBUTION POLICY

       All  utilities  in  this  fortran  utility  suite are dis-
       tributed under the GNU Public License.

BUGS

       If a bug occurs, it will most likely be generated  by  the
       MS-DOS versions of these tools. This will be mainly due to
       the 640kb memory limit MS-DOS has.

       If you think you have found a bug, you can send  email  to
       the  author, describing what the bug is, how you generated
       it and if you can reproduce it. Also specify the  platform
       where this bug occured.

AUTHOR

       Koen D'Hondt
       ripley@xs4all.nl
       (C)Copyright 1995-1996 by Ripley Software Development

SEE ALSO

       scan_commons(1),   list_commons(1),  fflow(1),  ffscan(1),
       ftags(1)