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A.1 Presentation of the utilities

The utilities are presented in the following manner:

Utility UTILIT

SUBROUTINE UTILIT( , , )

INTEGER IN, INOUT

REAL OUT

Description of the utility...

This presentation includes a title, the Fortran specification of the utility, and its description in natural language.

The arrows indicates the input/output mode of the parameters:

IN

is an input parameter, i.e. used but not modified,

OUT

is an output parameter, i.e. not used but modified,

INOUT

is an input and output parameter, i.e. used and modified.

with the following definitions:

• a parameter is called used if its value before the call can be used during execution of the utility,
• a parameter is called modified if its value can be modified during execution of the utility.