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From: ghenniga@nmsu.edu (Gary Hennigan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: MS Fortran and DOS
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Date: 10 Aug 90 05:37:07 GMT
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Hello,

   I have a problem I hope someone out there can help with. I have MS
FORTRAN v5.00 at home on my PC and was wondering if it is possible to
do DOS level calls from within my FORTRAN code, specifically what I
would like to do is be able to do a CD from within my code and
possibly run some external executables such as PKZIP. I'm an "old
hand" at FORTRAN programming but have never had to try to do
interaction with system level calls from within FORTRAN.
   I realize this is a jump for FORTRAN but since my main thrust is in
numerical analysis of EE problems I found FORTRAN to be my best choice
and only have room for either FORTRAN or C on my hard disk so I of
course chose FORTRAN.

Any help, even to tell me NO WAY, would be appreciated!

Thanks,
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Gary Hennigan
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