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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: On Microsoft Fortran 5.0.  Bugs again?
Summary: How about some info?
Message-ID: <1989Jun29.175743.28105@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 29 Jun 89 17:57:43 GMT
References: <15054@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <15054@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> bauwens@euler.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Luc Bauwens) writes:
>So, here we go, and buy the latest version of MS Fortran, 5.0 or
>something like that.  I install it on his Everex 386/20.  

If posting a bug report, how about getting the details straight?
I have 4.1, which I think is the current version.  How can we comment if
we don't know exactly what you are using?  Are you sure the machine
isn't a 486/50 or something like that?

>Testing runs OK, except the Microsoft editor gives some funny
>messages right after being loaded, but apparently ends up
>working OK.  So I start and convert a perhaps 300/400 lines
>routine, and debug the conversion.

What messages?  Maybe they mean something!

>When trying to compile, depending upon the flags specified, 
>either the machine freezes, or starts a sequence of repeated
>printscreens...   But compile, it doesn't...

What flags?  What command line are you using?  What are you doing?

>So my question: am I doing something desperately wrong, or
>is Microsoft really beyond salvation?

Since you haven't told us what you are doing, how can we tell whether
you are doing it right or wrong?

For the record, I have MS 4.1 and maintain a sizeable simulation
software package with it, including links to C and assembler routines.
It works fine, not cryptic messages or anything like that.  The code is
all written in standard Fortran-77 except for the include statement, and
I do all program development on a Unix system, then just run through sed
to convert the includes and compile on a Dell 310 (386/20 also).

The MS make is pitiful, and I haven't tried CodeView, since I don't
bother using MS-DOS for development.  I stick to Fortran-77, so
conversion is not a problem.  

If I do run into problems, I will notify this newsgroup, and I will
include the details.  Suggest others do likewise.

-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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