f77 bug or am I doing something wrong?

[Greg "Bucket" Woods]

 >  There is no "O" format in FORTRAN 77.

   Yes, and it's even worse than this. The compiler does not check format 
statements, except to make sure quotes and parentheses match. An error like
this won't be detected until runtime. &*%#^!

--Greg
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