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IDL CALL_EXTERNAL UNIX FORTRAN NO CARRIAGE_RETURN [message #21522] Mon, 28 August 2000 00:00
Lew Randerson is currently offline  Lew Randerson
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Registered: August 2000
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On UNIX (Both Solaris and Digital UNIX) with IDL Version 5.3,
when using CALL_EXTERNAL on FORTRAN subroutines, carriage
returns of WRITE statements to the screen are being ignored. i.e.
we are getting this:
IDL> ftn_lew
LINE ONE
LINE TWO
LINE THREE
IDL>
When we should be getting this
IDL> ftn_lew
LINE ONE
LINE TWO
LINE THREE
IDL>

What's wrong????

Here's the FORTRAN source:
$ cat ftn_lew_sun.f
REAL*4 FUNCTION FTN_LEW()
WRITE(*,10) 'LINE ONE'
WRITE(*,10) 'LINE TWO'
WRITE(*,10) 'LINE THREE'
10 FORMAT(1X,A)
FTN_LEW = 1.0
END

Here's the IDL source.
$ cat ftn_lew.pro
PRO FTN_LEW
CD, '.', CURRENT=PWD
LIB_NAME = PWD+'/'+'ftn_lew.'+'so'
ENTRY_NAME = 'ftn_lew'+'_'
SUM = CALL_EXTERNAL( LIB_NAME, ENTRY_NAME, /F_VALUE)
RETURN
END

Here's the build
f77 -pic -G -c ftn_lew_sun.f
f77 -G -o ftn_lew.so ftn_lew_sun.o \
-lF77 -lm -lc


This problem is not seen on VMS.

Thanks in advance for any help.
--Lew
lranderson@pppl.gov
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