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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran Main with C I/O
Summary: If true, this is a disaster!
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.221007.8515@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 20 Sep 90 22:10:07 GMT
References: <1044@helens.Stanford.EDU>
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1044@helens.Stanford.EDU> joe@hanauma.Stanford.EDU (Joe Dellinger) writes:
>
>We just got the latest OS upgrade, which is the first one to be
>"POSIX-compliant". Now we are told "if you want to be able to use C I/O
>you'll have to have your mains in C"! This means rewriting a LOT of software.
>
>	OK. Are we really a special case? Is there anybody else out there
>that writes Fortran mains but uses C to do the I/O? If so, let me know, so
>we can make a case to them not to do this!

This would be an absolute disaster.  We use C I/O extensively for things
like graphics, raw input, and to do things like display a file directory
when asking the user to input a data file name.  If true, someone had
better come up with a fix awfully fast!

-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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