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Coding and porting prerequisites

The standard of Fortran used for the coding of MSG and ERR is fundamentally Fortran 77, using the Starlink Fortran coding conventions described in SGP/16. Several common extensions to the Fortran 77 standard are used in source code for MSG and ERR, they are as follows:

To use MSG and ERR on any computer system, the Starlink Error Message Service, EMS and Character Handling Routines, CHR must be available.



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MERS (MSG and ERR) Message and Error Reporting Systems
Starlink User Note 104
P C T Rees
A J Chipperfield
22 October 2001
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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