RE: gFortran problem compiling complex character strings

["Atwood, Robert C" <r dot atwood at imperial dot ac dot uk>]

colin> So it would appear that the Debian version of g77 does not 
colin> have the 72 char
colin> limit.

Indeed, I cannot reproduce that on this Suse-10 system, if it fails wth
gfortran, and it also fails with g77. I copied your print statement,
with print starting in column 12, thus the closing single-quote is in
73, then just an 'end' after for a 2-line program 

      1            print *, 'Try one of "Skip", "Test", "Verbosity" or
"Cleanup"'
      2       end


Both g77 and gfortran choke on it when not using any -ffree-form or
-ffixed-line-length= flags, and work if using the flag.

 Did debain patch it so that it does not behave as documented? are the
documents patched too?!? I've got debian (lenny/sid) at home I can try
later on -- but probably I'm not going to be doing any fortran on that
machine. 

(Also the editor I'm using (vim) handily places a nasty-looking yellow
blob over the offending quote when it's beyond the 72 columns!)

Versions:

GNU Fortran (GCC) 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)
GNU Fortran 95 (GCC 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux))
GNU Fortran 95 (GCC) 4.2.0 20070130 (prerelease) <- my own build 

Robert