On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 2:54 PM Eric Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> That stands for "data field too big", i.e., too much data to fit in 4KW. > That's as opposed to "instruction field", which if too big would mean that > there's too much code. > Although I used OS/8 Fortran in the distant past, I never tried to compile > large Fortran programs or programs that used much data, so I don't know > what it takes to solve that problem. Maybe there is some way to get Fortran > to use more than one 4KW field for data, issuing the necessary CDF > instructions to switch data fields? > Checking the OS/8 Language Reference Manual reveals that I was totally incorrect. That stands for Data File too big. "Product fo number of record times number of blocks per record exceeds number of blocks in file." So I have no idea how to fix that.
