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From: russell@imtec.co.uk (Russell Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c
Subject: Coverting a package written in VMS Fortran to Unix
Message-ID: <654@imtec.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 11:50:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: imtec.654
Posted: Fri Sep 18 11:50:10 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 19:56:29 EDT
Organization: Imtec Computers Ltd, Peterborough, England
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Hello,

The company Gods have decided that we are going to be converting a whole bunch
of software written in Fortran under VMS to run under Unix (well that's the
plan :-)

I understand that the VMS stuff uses 'Virtual arrays on disk' - arrays that are
mapped onto disk rather than residing in memory (excuse my ignorance but if I
knew what I was talking about I wouldn't be posting here! :-)

We're not sure whether a conversion from VMS Fortran to F77 is the best way to
go or whether a conversion to 'C' is the best route.

Anyone out there in net.world got any pointers on doing this? What are the
pitfalls? How different are F77 and the VMS dialect? What are the F to C
converters like? 

Many thanks in advance.

(usual bit about summarizing if enough people interested).

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