See any dictionary for the definition of 'old'. :-) Last time I used VMS in 1990i, and upgrading to newer versions of software on the systems required a few hurdles to clear.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 02:13:54PM -0700, Douglas B Rupp wrote: > VMS hasn't had a 3 character filename extension limit since before > VAX/VMS version 4.0 was released in 1984. > > On 07/16/2015 01:41 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 05:08:50PM +0200, Paul Richard Thomas wrote: > >> > >> Please find attached a new version of the patch that fixes the > >> inconsistency with the standard, pointed out by Reinhold. It is weird > >> but a read the appropriate part of the standard several times and > >> simply did not pick up the critical information :-) > >> > >> Note that the delimiter used for submodule file name is '@', whereas > >> the internal identifiers is '.'. > >> > >> I have added a procedure to cleanup submodules produced by the > >> testsuite and implemented them in submodule_[1-8].f90. Submodule_8.f90 > >> tests the resolution of the spurious error found by Reinhold. > >> > >> Booststraps and regtests on FC_21/x86_64 - OK for trunk? > >> > > > > Patch looks ok to me. One item I wonder if we need to care > > about is old filesytems (FAT) or operating systems (VMS) with > > a 3 character file extension limit. > > -- Steve