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From: jwe@che.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton)
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Subject: Re: Help! f2c runtime error.
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Date: 10 Dec 90 22:03:48 GMT
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In article <9012101934.AA11906@euler.Berkeley.EDU>
ndeng@EULER.BERKELEY.EDU writes:

> I just downloaded the f2c program from research.att.com and compiled it 
> on a VAX 8650. The compilation went smoothly and I got the excutable file.
> However, when I tried to invoke it, it gave the following error message:
>
> Compiler error: cannot open intermediate file /tmp/f2cxxxxx_p1f
>
> What's wrong with it?

From the README file in the f2c distribution:

  For some non-ANSI versions of stdio, you must change the values given
  to binread and binwrite in sysdep.c from "rb" and "wb" to "r" and "w".

I would guess that your stdio library doesn't understand the binary
flag.  If so, changing this should fix your problem.

--
John Eaton
jwe@che.utexas.edu
Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin