Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!eastman!dixel!lrul00 From: lrul00@dixel.Kodak.COM (Richard C. Dempsey) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Converts Fortran code to C code Message-ID: <1322@eastman.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 90 14:30:36 GMT References: <1990Aug5.064809.9619@zoo.toronto.edu> <35203@ut-emx.UUCP> <1990Aug5.212907.21545@zoo.toronto.edu> <657@accsys.ccs.imp.com> Sender: news@eastman.UUCP Lines: 33 In article <657@accsys.ccs.imp.com> etienne@accsys.ccs.imp.com (Stefan Hauser) writes: >i got f2c and libs on 6 (or 7?) aug from research.att.com. also there must >be something... BUT.. 'dir' shows nothing. (i see this on other hosts too... >why ??) the trick, do an 'ls -l' or 'ls -FC' for long or short list. >perhaps the peoples out there go fix their ftp-servers, so these work >the way they should ..... I ran into this same problem (being unable to get a directory from research.att.com). There are two solutions: 1) use the netlib mail server start out by saying % mail netlib@research.att.com Subject: send index read the reply, and go from there. My guess is that 'send index from dist/f2c' will tell you what's in the f2c distribution. 2) fix your ftp client by getting the latest release of ftp. I got mine from the BSD-4.3 tahoe distribution at wuarchive.wustl.edu I can't build it yet, because I have to find herror(3), but we'll get there. Evidently, there have been some changes in the official ftp protocol that are not yet reflected in the vendors products. for example, Ultrix uses the old protocols. --- -- Richard C. Dempsey dempsey@Kodak.COM Computational Science Laboratory (716) 477-3457 Eastman Kodak Company #include Rochester, NY 14650