What is the format of your input text file ? Is it MacOS9, DOS (Windows), or UNIX (or MacOSX) these 3 different text file formats are different by the end of line ascii code (yes, text files are standard an duniversal, except that they are not really !). MacOSX (UNIX) Absoft programs writes and read text files with UNIX end of lines. If to try to read any of the two other files format, your fortran program will crash becaus eit will not recognize the end of lines of your text. The most convenient way I found to convert a MacOS9 or Windows text file to UNIX and MacOSX ones is to open these files with AbsoftEditor. On the bottom right of your text window, you have a menu which can change the end of line format. Of course if you read text files written directly for MacOSX, normally you fortran program should not crash. I don't know if this is the solution of your problem, but it is exactly the problem I personally experienced when I began to emigrazte to MacOSX fortran programming.
Best regards
Alain Michalowicz
ICMPE
CNRS UNIversite Paris 12
France
michalov@univ-paris12.fr or michalow@wanadoo.fr
