Fortran Turn off writing to screen in Fortran 90

[MichielM]

Hi,
Is there a command available that makes the compiler ignore all write(*,*) statements?!
The thing is, I'm working on a code which will eventually run for several hours (perhaps days) to complete a single run. At the moment I'm testing so I write a lot of data to the screen in order to 'follow the program', but once I start do production runs the screen writing will probably take valuable time so then I want to turn it off.

Of course I can write if..then statements around each write(*,*) such that I can use a variable to switch writing on or off, but I was wondering if there might be a compiler command to suppress write(*,*) statements?!

Thanks in advance

 

[jtbell]

If you're using a Unix-based system, you can redirect standard output to /dev/null:

% myprogram > /dev/null

 

[MichielM]

nice, thanks!

And if I use a windows system? (I have linux at home, but my university uses windows)