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From: chpf127@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Translator from VMS FORTRAN to BSD f77 or ANSI 77
Message-ID: <771@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 05:59:19 GMT
References: <903@midas.UUCP>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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Keywords: VMS translator
Summary: Translator available

In article <903@midas.UUCP>, mkraiesk@midas.UUCP (Mark Kraieski) writes:
> 
> WANTED: VMS FORTRAN translator to BSD f77 or ANSI 77 FORTRAN
> 
> Let's have the good, the bad, and the ugly.

  The only one I know of (I haven't used it) was described by Richard Hessel
  and Stephen Chico (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  Department at Clarkson University) in Advanced Engineering Software,
  Volume 7, Number 3, p142 (1985).  It's written in Pascal, and while
  they claim it's not perfect, it's probably better than nothing.
  I'll make no claims for this product, except that it apparently exists.
  
  If you can't get in touch with the authors, or find the article, send
  email my way and I'll get you a copy.  It's good to see that there's
  someone else out there who wants to make his VM$ FORTRAN more portable.
  The attitude around here seems to (sadly) be "VAX FORTRAN is great, so
  why do you avoid using all those neat extensions?  Everyone has a VAX,
  don't they?"


    J. Eaton
    Department of Chemical Engineering
    The University of Texas at Austin

    Really, doesn't *everyone* have a VAX?

    Oh, BTW, Clarkson is Potsdam, NY 13676.