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From: bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Book on Fortran Tools
Message-ID: <1110@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>
Date: 14 Aug 90 00:23:24 GMT
Reply-To: bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt)
Organization: University of Florida Quantum Theory Project
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I just picked up an interesting-looking book from our library:

@BOOK{jones-88-fortran,
	AUTHOR = {Russell K. Jones and Tracy Crabtree},
	TITLE = {Fortran Tools},
	PUBLISHER = {John Wiley and Sons},
	YEAR = {1988},
	NOTE = {ISBN: 0 471 61976 0 LC: QA76.73.F25J66 1989}
}

It is in many respects similar to Kernighan & Plaugher's 'Software
Tools' books, but has (among other things)
	A preprocessor very much like the C-preprocessor
	A lexical analyzer and a small compiler with a virtual machine
in Fortran.  Both of these caught my eye.

The book is aimed at VMS and MS-DOS users.  The preface says that
machine-readable sources can be purchased, though I don't know the
cost.

Questions:
1) Has anyone read it yet who might be willing to review (in email or
   on the net) it read it yet?  If not, and IF I get a chance to read
   it in the next two weeks, I'll review it (assuming others are
   interested). 

2) Has anyone got their machine-readable sources? Errors or problems
   in using them? Outside of VMS or MS-DOS environments?

Thanks.
-- 
David Bernholdt			bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu
Quantum Theory Project		bernhold@ufpine.bitnet
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL  32611		904/392 6365