Segmentation fault using gcc-gfortran 4.2.4 or 4.3.2

[Kimberly Artita]

Several times I've tried upgrading to the gcc gfortran compiler from
version 4.1.2 to 4.2.4 or 4.3.2.

In version 4.1.2, I could read in a character string from a text file
that contained spaces, example:

General Input/Output

In versions 4.2.4 and 4.3.2, I keep getting a segmentation fault
error. It seems that spaces aborts the read function?

The text files I'm reading in a generated from a ESRI ArcView
extension.  I have 7x159 + 13 separate text files.

Is there a simple solution to this chaos?  I don't want to edit the
text files...

(I'm running gentoo and using *.f90 files.)

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Kimberly S. Artita
PhD Intern, CDM
Graduate Student, Engineering Science
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois 62901-6603
(618)-528-0349
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