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Get some internal and machine parameters

CALL FFGET (CHOPT, IVALUE)

This subroutine returns some internal parameters of FFREAD as selected by the character variable CHOPT. Valid values and their meaning are:

LINP
return LUN for input
LOUT
return LUN for output
NBIT
number of bits per word
NCHW
number of characters per word
NBCH
number of bits per character
NCHK
number of characters per key

NBIT, NCHW and NBCH are machine constants.

The requested parameter is retuned in the integer variable IVALUE.


Janne Saarela
Tue May 16 09:50:47 METDST 1995