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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Replace Fortran libraries
Message-ID: <5034@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 22 Mar 91 06:29:26 GMT
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References: <3410001@hplred.HP.COM> <1991Mar22.001551.28932@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <1991Mar22.001551.28932@agate.berkeley.edu>, jerry@violet.berkeley.edu (Jerry Berkman) writes:
> In article <3410001@hplred.HP.COM> sivaram@hplred.HP.COM (S. Sivaramakrishnan) writes:
> >Assume you have a machine whose Fortran libraries have been "lost".  However,
> >this machine has a Fortran compiler, a C compiler and C libraries.  You
> >would like to run some fortran code which has a few common library
> >calls - read/write, open/close of files etc.  Can this be reasonably
> >accomplished? How?

There is a simple solution:  pick up a copy of "f2c" and convert the
Fortran code to C.  The f2c sources include the Fortran library,
including formatted transput.
-- 
Seen from an MVS perspective, UNIX and MS-DOS are hard to tell apart.