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Short Name FORTRAN -77 Naming Conventions

The FORTRAN-77 Versions of the Subprograms within this Package have 6 character names built up of 3 portions, where each portion has two characters. In all cases the first 2 characters are UI. Generally the second portion indicates some action such as ``Define" or ``Use", where the following 2 character sequences have been used:-

         AS     Assign

         DF     Define

         DI     Display/Disable

         DR     Drop

         EN     Enable

         FH     Fetch

         GT     Get

         HI     Hide

         IQ     Inquire

         MO     Modify

         MV     Move

         RV     Reserve

         TE     Temporary

         US     Use

The last set of 2 characters normally is used to indicate the object (Verb, Menu etc.) to which the Subprogram refers.

         BU     Button

         DP     Double Precision

         GP     Group

         HX     Hexadecimal

         IN     Integer

         LO     Logical

         MD     Mode

         ME     Menu

         MX     Mixed

         OC     Octal

         ON     On/Off

         QU     Qualifier

         RE     Real

         TX     Text

         VB     Verb

         VP     Viewport

         YE     Yes/No


Liz Buckle
Fri Jan 13 17:38:10 CST 1995