Deviation from MS Fortan behavior

[Toon Moene]

Alois Maier wrote:
> 
> g77 does not compile this program:
> 
> > g77 -c a.for
> >a.for: In program `wk2la':
> >a.for:2:
> >   1000    FORMAT (1X,'ENTER THE NAME OF THE DATA (.ODF ASSUMED):'\)
> >                                                                  ^
> >Unrecognized character at (^) [info -f g77 M LEX]
> >a.for:2:
> >   1000    FORMAT (1X,'ENTER THE NAME OF THE DATA (.ODF ASSUMED):'\)

Thanks for your bug report.  Unfortunately, the backslash (\) character
is not in the Fortran character set; hence it is impossible to define
what the compiler "should" do with it.  MS Fortran's solution would be
one way to treat the character, but there might be others orthogonal to
their way.

Could you describe what effect this use of backslash in the format
statement has, using MS Fortran ?  Perhaps we can suggest another way of
getting the same result.

Hope this helps,

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