"Paul Bolton" <[log in to unmask]> writes: > Is there a simple way to determine the association status of a pointer > variable, analogous to the intrinsic ALLOCATED function for non-pointer > arrays with the ALLOCATABLE attribute? Salford FTN90 gives the error > message Yes, it's ASSOCIATED -- . Paul Stevenson . Reasearch Fellow . University of Surrey . . phone: +44 (0) 1483 876795 . fax +44 (0) 1483 876781 . . I dream in beige . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%