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From: frodo@wcom.UUCP (Jim Scardelis)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: Translator from Rat4 to F77?
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 08:55:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 10 08:55:26 1985
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> 
> Then I ran the program back through RATFOR. Yeech-o, lots and lots of
> GOTO's. All those nice RATFOR if-then-else's gone in an instant. The result
> was as bad, if not worse, than the original.
> 
> I realize that normally the trick would be to do the program maintenance on
> the RATFOR code. Since we're dealing with a system that doesn't support it,
> however, the next best thing would be to use as much f77 capability as
> possible.
> 

	There are a couple of versions of RATFOR written in RATFOR, which
can then be translated to f77, and ported to whatever system you have. At
least one of them is public domain.

	Now, if I can only remember what I did with my copy of it......
-- 
				Jim Scardelis
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