VMS Help FORTRAN, Intrinsic Procedures, QEXT  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  QEXT (number)

  A function that converts the argument to a REAL*16 value.
  +------+---------+----------+------------+-------------+
  | Args | Generic | Specific |  Argument  | Result Type |
  +------+---------+----------+------------+-------------+
  |  1   |  QEXT   | QEXT     | INTEGER*2  | REAL*16     |
  |      |         | QEXT     | INTEGER*4  | REAL*16     |
  |      |         | QEXT     | REAL*4     | REAL*16     |
  |      |         | QEXTD    | REAL*8     | REAL*16     |
  |      |         | QEXT     | REAL*16    | REAL*16     |
  |      |         | QEXT     | COMPLEX*8  | REAL*16     |
  |      |         | QEXT     | COMPLEX*16 | REAL*16     |
  +------+---------+----------+------------+-------------+