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From: bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.unix.cray
Subject: why has Cray dropped CPP support from cf77?
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Date: 17 Feb 91 19:47:42 GMT
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The latest release of cf77 no longer supports automaticly running .F
files through CPP before compiling them.  This move seems to be a step
backward from the what I think is a _very_ useful feature common to
_many_ unix-based fortran implementations.  Does anyone know why they
did it?