info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (05/06/85)
From: lionel%eiffel.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Steve Lionel) > Next, a user is having some trouble with NAMELIST input. He is trying to > input a hollerith, and wants to say something like "56Hblah blah blah blah...". > He says this works on an IBM system (where it should probably stay!) but > doesn't work on the VAX. I'm not even certain what NAMELIST input is, but > can anyone tell me whether this is supposed to work on the VAX or not? > Can he only use character variables in NAMELIST input? VAX FORTRAN NAMELIST input does not support Hollerith constants. You'll have to use a character constant. By the way, VAX FORTRAN in VMS V4.0 implements a neat new feature in NAMELIST where you can ask it to list the variables or both the variables and their values while typing in NAMELIST input. If you type ? wherever a variable name or group name could appear, you'll get a list of the variables in the group along with the group name. This is handy when you have forgotten the name of the variables or the group. Typing =? at the same locations, followed by RETURN, lists the values as well (just as a NAMELIST WRITE would do). You can then continue with entering NAMELIST data. The =? is not documented, unfortunately. The prompting feature only works from an interactive terminal and, like everything else in NAMELIST input, column 1 is ignored. Steve Lionel Posted: Mon 6-May-1985 16:40 EST To: RHEA::DECWRL::"engvax!KVC@cit-vax",RHEA::DECWRL::"info-vax@SRI-KL"