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961227: F90 standard "byte" (reprise)

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  • Subject: 961227: F90 standard "byte" (reprise)
  • Date: Fri, 27 Dec 96 16:01:32 -0700
John,

>Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 17:09:49 -0500 (EST) 
>From: address@hidden (John Sheldon)
>Organization: Princeton/GFDL
>To: address@hidden (Steve Emmerson)
>Subject: Re: 961227: F90 standard "byte" (reprise) 
>Keywords: 199612271722.KAA28950

In the above message you wrote:

> THAT DID IT!  Well, it got thru the "make test", anyway.  I'll have our
> 'epcf90' user here test his code using it and let you know how things
> turn out.

Great!

> 
> The one downside to all this is that if it does the trick for 'epcf90',
> I will likely have to make changes to some interface routines I've
> written here which help users write netCDF files.  This means I'll have
> to figure out how to handle BYTE's so that I am consistent with
> "FORTRAN_HAS_NO_BYTE" and "`FILBYTEMACRO',`129'".  Sigh....

Tell 'em to use C!  ;-)

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>