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- From: davet@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Dave Tutelman)
- Subject: Re: FORTRAN compiler needed quickly
- Organization: AT&T Bell Labs - Lincroft, NJ
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:48:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.154803.25937@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Summary: The net comes through again
- References: <1992Dec29.122213.10478@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
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- My thanks to those who helped me solve my problem, and it has been solved.
- A couple of days ago, I wrote:
-
- >I need to borrow, rent, or buy (cheaply) a FORTRAN compiler (or interpreter)
- >for MSDOS. Can be VERY simple, as it's for a project for my son's beginning
- >FORTRAN course in High School. (He accidentally blew away a week or two of
- >work from his BACKUP floppy [arrgh!] in class, and wants to reconstruct it
- >on his PC at home during the Xmas break.) I suspect this is a one-time,
- >couple-of-day need (as the course ends in January, and the next course is
- >PASCAL).
-
- I received quite a few helpful suggestions. As it turned out, the majority
- of the suggestions cited a freeware package (BCF77 ver 1.3b), available at
- most of the major archive sites. Definitely at WU and SIMTEL.
- Check the PD MS-DOS archives, directory "fortran", for the file BCF7713B.ZIP,
- if you want a copy; its about a quarter meg of download.
-
- Anyway, I downloaded it, and it seems to be just what the doctor ordered,
- or close enough anyway.
- - Seems to run on anything Intel from my 386-40 to my son's 8086 box.
- - Compiles and links Fortran-77 pretty quickly and hassle-free.
- - Includes an inconvenient but workable debugger.
- - The docs (originally in German) have been augmented by an English
- translation.
- - The progress and error messages from the compiler, linker, and debugger
- are in German. While this will prove a challenge to my son, his
- background in languages should allow him to handle it with some effort,
- and will probably be a good experience in the long run.
-
- Thanks to
- Khalid Sarwar Warraich (k1w8221@sc.tamu.edu)
- Darin Latimer (dlatimer@iris4.chem.arizona.edu)
- Rick Hoffbeck (rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu)
- Hannes Blankenstein (jbla@giraffe.in-berlin.de)
- Bob Hood (thor@arrakis.denver.co.us)
- for pointing me in the right direction, and especially to
- Andre Koestli of Stuttgart
- for creating the package and making it freely available.
-
- Thanks for other suggestions to:
- - Joi Ellis (msjle@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) for suggesting Lahey's Personal Fortran,
- available mail order for $89.
- - Doug Sewell (doug@cc.ysu.edu) for pointing out that Microsoft's Fortran
- compiler is currently on sale for $149.
- - Steve Hovater (svh@verdix.com) for offering to lend me his Fortran while
- I needed it.
-
- Thanks for the help, everyone.
-
- Dave
-
-