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Subject: Re: Re: Disks 103-110 now available
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Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 23:07:37 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 23:07:37 1987
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> Keywords: "Fish disks"
> 
> [In response to Fred's notice of a bunch of obnoxious distribution
> limitations on software developed with ABSOFT's FORTRAN compiler.]
 
I'm sorry, but I seem to have  missed this. I did read Fred's posting
of the new disks available, and have scanned forwards and backwards
from that article but can't find this reference. Could you be more
specific?

> I doubt they'll miss me, but goodbye Absoft!

Perhaps not, but if I lost my FORTRAN compiler, I'd miss it.


[analogy between ditch digging and programming omitted]
> 
> Bleeah!  And I had heard so MANY nice things about their FORTRAN, and
> the earlier posting mentioning lots of not-particularly-FORTRAN
> oriented software developed with their compiler seemed to say lots
> MORE nice things about it as a development tool.  But I will rot in
> Hell before I will put some compiler vendor's ad on the title screen
> of software products I sell.

I believe I can agree with the nice things you've heard (there are some
things I don't like about the compiler, but not many). However, after
reading the license agreement, I can find no mention of such a restiction
in it, or in the manual. (Although I must admit I only scanned the manual.
If such a requirement is placed on the software, it should appear in the
licensing section.)

As I say, this is the first that I have seen or heard mention of this
problem with Absoft. Could you please repost the portion of the message
which refers to this? As a FORTRAN programmer on the Amiga, I am quite
interested.

> Kent, the (totally weird) man from xanth.
> 
    {I'm from Mundania myself.}
Ian.

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