gonzalez@soma.UUCP (07/08/87)
I am attempting to put some (somebody else's) FORTRAN source under SCCS. Being a C hacker, I am somewhat unfamiliar with how f77 stores strings. In C, a convenient way to embed an SCCS string, for later detection by what(1) and strings(1), is to begin each source file with: static char * sccsid = "%W% (...) %G%"; The closest I've been able to get with f77 is to declare a character array in the first function of each source file, and then assign to it: character*72 sccsid . . sccsid = '%W% (...) %G%' There several problems with this. First of all, strings(1) doesn't find the string unless you give it the - switch, because it is unitialized data. Secondly, the function in each source file that has this is doing busy work (the assignment) each time it is called. I first thought that the parameter mechanism was what I wanted, but it appears to be more like #define (the string appears *nowhere* in the object file). Any ideas? -Jim Gonzalez BBN Laboratories, Inc. gonzalez@vax.bbn.com