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   Lynn McGuire to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: Intel Fortran Help in VS   
   25 Jan 24 15:31:51   
   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/24/2024 6:20 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:59:59 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >   
   >>               CALL DSDBSE (2,ISET,NDXPH,NDXP,NDXT,NDXCOM,   
   >>        *                   NDXZ,NDXFSS,NDXPHI, NDXVOL)   
   >   
   > Are people still stuck with 6-letter names? I thought we left that behind   
   > with FORTRAN 66 ...   
      
   Much Fortran code was written under the F66 rules until the late 1980s   
   if you supported multiple platforms (we supported ten platforms in the   
   1980s).  You can update it to longer names at your own peril.   
      
   Lynn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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