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> OK, so I tried it the way you wrote it.  Now it runs just fine under VMS,
> but under ULTRIX (presumably the 4.2bsd f77 compiler) it bombs out, but
> only because it thinks "size" is a REAL;  "isize" works just fine.  So a
> new question:  I always thought PARAMETER definitions were not subject to
> the IMPLICIT rules;  VMS Fortran behaves according to my preconception, at 
> least in this example.  So am I wrong, or is this YAf77B* ?

The type of an identifier defined in a PARAMETER statement is determined
in exactly the same way as the type of any other identifier.  From
the Standard, page 8-8, lined 53ff:

	If a symbolic name of a constant is not of default
	implied type, its type must be specified by a type-statement
	or IMPLICIT statement prior to its first appearance in a
	PARAMETER statement.

Thus, you should have written:

	integer size
	parameter (size = 10)
	character * (size) string

(Sorry I neglected this on my previous posting.)