A Fortran M program is executed in the same way as other programs. For example, to run example1, you would type the following, where % is the Unix shell prompt:
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In this and subsequent examples of running programs, text typed by the user is written in italic, program output in roman, and the shell prompt is %.
The Fortran M run-time system has a number of run-time configurable parameters that can be controlled by command line arguments . In order to keep these run-time system arguments from interfering with the program's arguments, all arguments up to but not including the first -fm argument are passed to the program. All arguments after the -fm argument are passed to the run-time system. For example, suppose you run a Fortran M program as follows: my_program my_arg1 my_arg2 -fm -nodes dalek
This causes my_arg1 and my_arg2 to be passed to the Fortran M program, and -nodes and dalek to the run-time system.
Run-time system parameters are discussed in more detail in §4.2. In addition, a complete list of these run-time system parameters, and a brief description of their meaning, can be obtained by using the -h argument, for example: my_program -fm -h