line length limit of NMTRAN and initial value limit of NONMEM

From: Patrick Zhou patrickmzhou@yahoo.com Subject: [NMusers] line length limit of NMTRAN and initial value limit of NONMEM Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:29:42 -0800 (PST) Dear All, Happy New Year! There are two questions that I am trying to figure out. 1. In NONMEM control file, the limit of characters in each record (line) is 80, including space in the middle. Is there a way that we can have continue line in the file? e.g., a line of statement is longer than 80 characters, instead of creating and using some dummy variable to store and transfer intermidiate results, and to shorten the line, can we have a continue line? 2. Sometime, we need to give a small initial value for PK parameter estimation. Is that true the smallest initial value is .0000001 because of 8 character limit? Can we give even smaller initial value? Thank you very much for your help! Patrick