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1. Wrong Placement of Text

(a) If you run beyond the 72nd character on the line, the remaining characters will be ignored.

(b) Placing continuation characters in other than the 5th column, or omitting them entirely causes continuation lines to be misinterpreted.

(c) Omitting a comment character from the first column of a comment line causes the comment line to be interpreted as Fortran code.

(d) Labels must be placed in the first 5 columns.



Daniel Mitchell
1999-03-08