The backslash is probably an extension to keep the cursor on the same. You
can achieve that by using advance='no' in the write statement.
Note that some compilers may require a flush statement to actually make the
text visible.

Regards,

Arjen

Op za 27 aug. 2022 15:19 schreef Lars G Golmen <lars.golmen@niva.no>:

>
> Hello
> I have an old, small Fortran 4 program doing some statistics on time
> series: Aandstat.
> The .EXE file ran on 32 bits PC with like XP-OS, but not anymore on 64
> bits.
>
> A colleague on mine tried compile the attached code in gfortran.
> The gfortran compilation gave a couple of error messages, gfortran does
> not seem to accept the “\” sign.
> Is there a valid replacement for that sign (command) we can use, to get
> quickly forward?
>
> Sorry for any inconvenience.
>
> Best regards
> Lars Golmen
>
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>  << Fil: AANDSTAT.FOR >>
> _____________________________________________
> Frå: Shamil Iakubov <shamil.iakubov@niva.no>
> Send: torsdag 25. august 2022 20:35
> Til: Lars G Golmen <lars.golmen@niva.no>
> Emne: RE: Fortran
>
>
> Hi Lars!
>
> Fortran is exciting, in fact it has evolved significantly during the last
> few years and it fits modern standards nowadays, except for the building
> system probably. Also, some of the most in demand machine learning
> libraries still use Fortran code.
>
> Regarding your problem. I have tried to compile it with gfortran, it is a
> free open source compiler. It throws some errors:
>
> ```
> (base) lmsh@l5:~/src/lars_fortran$ gfortran AANDSTAT.FOR -std=legacy -o
> program
> AANDSTAT.FOR:27:22:
>
>    27 |  10      WRITE(*,'(//,A\)')' OPPGI FILNAMN FOR INPUT DATA-->'
>       |                      1
> Error: Unexpected element ‘\’ in format string at (1)
> AANDSTAT.FOR:30:17:
>
>    30 |        WRITE(*,'(A\)')' OPPGI FILNAMN FOR RESULTAT (NY FIL)-->'
>       |                 1
> Error: Unexpected element ‘\’ in format string at (1)
> (base) lmsh@l5:~/src/lars_fortran$
>
> Some googling proved that the code is compiler specific. It can be
> compiled with the Intel compiler (ifort). Sadly it is not free now. I
> believe NIVA has VisualStudio license with ifort so your files can be
> compiled with visual studio solutions building system, but currently I
> don’t have access to these facilities.
>
> Cheers,
> Shamil
>
> _____________________________________________
> From: Lars G Golmen <lars.golmen@niva.no<mailto:lars.golmen@niva.no>>
> Sent: torsdag 25. august 2022 13:29
> To: Shamil Iakubov <shamil.iakubov@niva.no<mailto:shamil.iakubov@niva.no>>
> Subject: Fortran
>
>
> Hei Shamil
> Nice to know you do Fortran.
> I worked with Fortran many years ago, Fortran 4.. on old computers. My
> compliler no longer works.
> Is it possible for you to recompile some source code I have, to work on
> present OS?
> I attach an example, just one program, no subroutines to map here. To make
> some special statistics on a equidistant time series. Input file name to be
> provided, 2 columns w ascii data.
> OK?
> (I have several others..🙂)
>
> Helsing
> Lars G
>  << File: AANDSTAT.FOR >>
>
>