> John Harper wrote:

>> In article aioe.org>, dpb non.net> wrote:
>>

>>> glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>>>

>>>> dpb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>> J. F. Cornwall wrote:

>>>>
>>>> (snip)
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>>> READ (*,'(A)') DBUFF

>>>>
>>>> (snip)
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>> I don't know about Sun Studio and someone (Bob Corbett may see)
>>>>> surely does. However, as a quickie, what does INQUIRE() for RECL
>>>>> tell you, if anything?

>>>>
>>>> Is UNIT=* allowed for INQUIRE?

>>
>>
>> No, presumably because INQUIRE wouldn't know whether you were asking
>> about the input or output unit called *.
>>
>> The good news is that Sun Studio 12 f95 has implemented
>> iso_fortran_env so you can discover the unsurprising fact that
>> input_unit is 5.
>> The bad news is that INQUIRE with that unit gives recl == 0, and when
>> I tried to read a long string of characters with (A) format it was OK
>> up to length 256 but not at 257.

>
> I haven't had a chance to try putting an INQUIRE into the program (spent
> last night in the basement watching tornadoes on local weather
> radar...), but your experiment sounds like confirmation of the same
> limit. We still do everything in fixed-format "F77" (yes, I know it's
> really the f95 compiler). It would appear my best short-term option is
> to tell the users they get 255 characters for a comment in this
> particular application :-\