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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 07:15:54 EDT
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- Comments: Resent-From: Linda Atkinson <ATKINSON@ERS>
- Comments: Originally-From: William Greene <wgreene@option.stern.nyu.edu>
- From: "Linda Atkinson" <ATKINSON@ERS.BITNET>
- Subject: LIMDEP
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- I was asked by the vendor of LIMDEP to send this out for the benefit
- of those who are having difficulty installing the new mainframe version.
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- ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- Linda: (Listen carefully and see if you can pick up my frustration.)
- The problem you are having with LIMDEP, as are several other
- IBM system users, is due to a quirk in IBM's Fortran. I won't call it
- a bug, but it is unique to IBM. The problem is this: I am trying to
- read your data as a string of characters, so that LIMDEP can interpret
- it and free you from having to provide a format -- i.e., an unformatted
- read. Since I do not know how many characters there are on a line, or
- even if there will be the same number of characters on each line, I
- try to read 255 characters. If the line contains less than 255 characters,
- here is what happens:
- IBM mainframes: Program crashes, as you saw
- All other types of mainframes, and all PCs: Program reads as
- many characters are as present, and fills remainder
- with blanks.
- I suppose I will have to program around this. If I am successful, I will
- let you know.
- Perhaps you could send the previous paragraph out on your network.
- (I do not access it.) In any event, it does not have to do with being
- unfamiliar with IBM systems. I know more about them than I wish to right
- now.
-