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From: heather@MATH.UCLA.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: erf() function in VMS FORTRAN
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Date: 28 May 88 00:07:42 GMT
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Reply-To: heather@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Heather Burris)
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Please forgive me if this question has been asked before.

One of the staff members here at UCLA is porting a statical analysis
application from an IBM mainframe to his departmental VAX.  The erf() 
function, which is supplied with the FORTRAN compiler on the mainframe 
(VS FORTRAN), is not present under VMS FORTRAN.  We believe that this 
function is part of the FORTRAN 77 standard and are therefore unsure why 
it is not supplied.  Be that as it may, DEC Tech Support has claimed no 
knowledge of this function.

Have any of you come across this problem?  How did you solve it?  We
heard that the solution may be found in the DECUS library distribution
from 77/78 but in perusing the catalog that describes the contents of
that distribution have found nothing that obviously solves the problem
(although there are some possibilities, like a STAT subroutine package,
that we can check in to).  Anyway, if any of you could tell us how
we can get source code to this function, written in FORTRAN of course,
or, worse, how to buy it, we'd be most grateful.

Please reply directly to me as I am not a regular reader of the newsgroup.
I will be happy to summarize to the group.

					Heather Burris
					Advanced Workstation Consultant