970213: F90 and netcdf (fwd)

Hi Harry,

> To: address@hidden
> From: Harry Edmon <address@hidden>
> Subject: F90 and netcdf (fwd)
> Organization: University of Washington
> Keywords: 199702132000.NAA24865

In the above message, you wrote:

> Have you looked at all at Fortran 90 support for netcdf?  I am not well
> acquainted with F90, so I'm not complete sure what the issue is here, but I
> thought I would pass it on.
> 
> >>>>> Forwarded message from Jamie Kettleborough <address@hidden>
> 
> Hello Harry,
> 
> I've just been talking to David and he thought you were a better person 
> to talk to about this.
> 
> I'm going to be using the fortran netcdf library from F90 programs.  So 
> far in the tests I've done everyting seems to be OK, except for one small 
> thing.  The netcdf include file containing the PARAMETERs is in fixed 
> source form (ie c's for comment lines), but if you include the file in a 
> program written in free form then the compiler complains.  At the moment 
> my simple work round this is to make a copy of the include file and 
> replace the 'c' with '!' for comment lines.  This is OK, except of course 
> when you update the netcdf library I have an old copy of the netcdf 
> include file.  Do you know is there anyway round this?  Either with 
> compiler options or anything else.
> 
> Hmm thinking about it I guess one way would be to simply in a Makefile 
> take a copy of the include file that is in /usr/local... and then just 
> run it through sed to strip out the comments lines completely.  Any other 
> ideas?
> 
> Jamie

The next release of netCDF 2 will use exclamation points (!) in column
1 in the include-file `netcdf.inc' to indicate a comment.  This should
support inclusion by both f77 and f90 compilers using either fixed or
free formats.

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>