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From: kuo@skatter.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Ultrix `fort' vs BSD `f77'
Message-ID: <278@skatter.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 18:54:45 EST
Article-I.D.: skatter.278
Posted: Thu Jan 29 18:54:45 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 16:25:47 EST
References: <193@skatter.UUCP> <748@imagen.UUCP> <251@skatter.UUCP> <296@hscfvax.UUCP>
Organization: Accelerator Lab, Saskatoon, Sask.
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Keywords: FORTRAN-77, VMS-FORTRAN-77
Summary: Help from DEC ... your must be joking!

In article <296@hscfvax.UUCP>, pavlov@hscfvax.UUCP (840033@G.Pavlov) writes:
>    A "few bugs" may be an understatement.  Has anyone had any positive exper-
>    iences getting help with these from DEC ??
> 

We started running into "undesirable features" almost the first day we
installed fort on our 785. If I recall correctly, our system manager did
not get much of a response from the DEC people. One other thing, try to
cat your fort-compiled execuatble. The first 512-bytes or so is DEC's
darn copyright notice! I don't appreciate this as it makes the file bigger
than it needs to be.