

	SUBROUTINE INIT_JOURNAL( status )

*
*
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*  Project(TMAP) of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
*  Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Lab(PMEL),
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*
*
* open the FERRET journal file

* programmer - steve hankin
* NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA - Tropical Modeling and Analysis Program

* V300:  5/93 - extracted from initialize.F
* V312:  5/94 - insert "PROCLAIM" output from here instead of from INITIALIZE
* V320: 12/29/94 - use WARN to avoid direct tty output (for GUI)
* V66   *kms* 5/10 LIB_GET_LUN is a subroutine, not a function
*       *acm* 3/12 cleanup ifdefs and unnecessary include files

	include 'tmap_dims.parm'
	include 'tmap_errors.parm'  ! error codes
	include	'ferret.parm'
	include	'errmsg.parm'
	include 'xprog_state.cmn'

* calling argument declarations:
	INTEGER status

* local variable declarations:
	INTEGER TM_LENSTR1, jnl_len

* get logical unit to open the journal file
	CALL LIB_GET_LUN( jrnl_lun )

*  rename last journal file by this name to old version
        CALL TM_PARK_LAST_VERSION( journal_file, status )
        IF ( status .NE. merr_ok ) GOTO 9000
	OPEN (	FILE=journal_file,
     .		UNIT=jrnl_lun,
     .		STATUS='NEW',
     .		ERR = 9000 )

* put introductory remarks into journal file
	CALL PROCLAIM ( jrnl_lun, '! ' )

* successful completion
	status = ferr_ok   ! status not really used
	RETURN

* errors
* note: error not reported to ERRMSG since this is called from INITIALIZE
 9000	jrnl_lun = unspecified_int4	! flag that there is no journal file
	jnl_len = TM_LENSTR1(journal_file)
	CALL WARN('Unable to create journal file '
     .			//journal_file(:jnl_len) )
	status = ferr_invalid_command  

	END

