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Re: Output conversion warnings in Vax Fortran

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From: fairfield
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:13
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In article <1992Oct12.112837.18130@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, bena@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Ben Aveling) writes:
> I'm sure anyone who has ever used Fortran has seen the ***** type output
> when a number is too big to fit in it's format statement.  My gripe is
> that every time my programs do that, it counts as a warning, and does a
> stack dump.  Can some kind soul please tell me how I can stop this
> happening, short of turning off all messages.

Simply add the IOSTAT parameter to your WRITE statements and ignore the
value returned:

	INTEGER*4 OK
	...
	WRITE (6,801,IOSTAT=OK) X,Y,Z
	...

		Cheers, Ken
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