Message text written by Fortran 90 List >The current standard doesn't allow for the possibility that the SIZE of an array may not fit in a default integer. Compaq Fortran has added KIND= to SIZE and other inquiry intrinsics (LEN, for example) to accomodate this< A full description of the Compaq solution, by Stan Whitlock, appears in the current, December 2000, issue of ACM Fortran Forum,. Mike Metcalf