Re: Trying to replace Pause statement

2018-01-23T12:48:21Z

Bob,

I believe the PAUSE statement was an extension as opposed to a standard, deprecated language feature. Regardless, your code should be working. In between these calls for reading from the console, do you ever access units 5 or 6? If unit 5 or 6 is redefined to point at a file, it actually changes the standard input and output to that file, meaning your Read statement is actually reading from the file. I would initially check that. Units under 20 or so can be extremely dangerous to use since some compilers have hard-coded definition of these unit numbers. Our compiler, for example, hard-codes the standard input and output to units 5 and 6.

You can also use the SLEEP function to slow things down at certain points.

Trying to replace Pause statement

2018-01-22T20:22:20Z

In order to check the progress of my code, I use a print statement followed by a Read statement
that should halt execution and wait for a key press.
Print *, " Begin Pass 56 on 20 Jan 2018 Enter any key then press enter"
Read(*,*)anyKey
always halts execution
But further on in the code:

Print *, " Does this line appear after the grid is displayed ?"
Read(*,*)anyKey

Does not halt execution.

Also, I think the Pause statement is deprecated ?

Bob

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