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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Fortran compilers for SCO UNIX
Keywords: Fortran cheap SCO
Message-ID: <1990Dec02.000253.16575@virtech.uucp>
Date: 2 Dec 90 00:02:53 GMT
References: <395@sherpa.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <395@sherpa.UUCP> rac@sherpa.UUCP (Roger Cornelius) writes:
>
>I'm looking for a low cost fortran compiler (probably a contradiction
>in terms?) for SCO UNIX.

For real low cost, you could get f2c (fortran to c translator) which
is free.

>As an aside, didn't UNIX originally include a fortran compiler (f77),
>or is this a Berkeley enhancement?  If not, what happened to it and
>why is it no longer included?

It used to be included.  Somewhere around System VR3 it stopped being
included in the standard software development system.


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