RE: gFortran problem compiling complex character strings

["Atwood, Robert C" <r.atwood@imperial.ac.uk>]

dominique> > Colin, your line is too long for the fixed form implied by 
dominique> the .f suffix:

colin> Argh! Yes, of course. It must be that g77 didn't have that 
colin> limit since the
colin> program used to build ok with that.

Now I am curious why that would be, I was under the impression that (in
absence of any flags) the 72 char  was the default in g77? 
Did you have a Makefile or other build system that had some additional
flags when using g77?  
(I am in the positon of helping Fortran users get their programs working
without actually being a Fortran user so little bits of info like this
are useful!)


 man g77 says:
       -ffixed-line-length-n
           Set column after which characters are ignored in typical
fixed-form lines in the source file, and through which spaces are
           assumed (as if padded to that length) after the ends of short
fixed-form lines.
           Popular values for n include 72 (the standard and the
default), 80 (card image), and 132 ...
 
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