Technical feedback re F77 and gfortran manual...

["Russell Nathan Hyer" <russell.hyer@hyerdesign.com>]

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Hi,

First off thanks for the (in the main) great toolset.

Second, recently, I started going backwards in time to learn and use 77 in my test projects. One of the many aspects involved in this set of mini projects is visualizing the data, so naturally like crashing a computer, the next thing to come was a micro web app. So, I noted with interest your documentation and starting point at:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/GETENV.html

Though, as someone who reads, writes and breaks and tests his own software, I found that basing my code around this whilst pragmatically correct (ie: gfortran will accept it with no quibbles) it's not actually fortran 77 code at all. And it's basically F or a subset of F95 for the style it uses. I mean, double quotes plus single quotes. Etc. etc.

Problematically, I had submitted a couple of emails into nber.org (at the point where I hadn't quite realised my error) so my email has been published. Though, I've just sent through a correction, so maybe that'll get published.

In the interim, please find attached to this email a 77 programme that does what you outline in the documentation as quoted above, but in 77 style.

Thanks,

Russell

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      program chaqry
      implicit none
      character*5 qry
      call getenv('QUERY_STRING', qry)
      print 1
    1 format('Content-type: text/html'//)
      print*, qry
      end