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From: heilpern@ibd.BRL.MIL (Mark A. Heilpern )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Calling FORTRAN from C (Was: Ne
Message-ID: <266@ibd.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Jun 89 17:40:22 GMT
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Reply-To: heilpern@brl.arpa (Mark A. Heilpern (IBD) <heilpern>)
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In article <8905181540.AA06912@cartier.dgp.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
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>Why not just have your main in Fortran?  It could be just a call to cmain().
>I think this solves this problem.  Of course, it doesn't solve this problem
>when you are trying to compile with two non-C languages, but for just one it's
>fine.

I've often used C as a fron end to Fortran to allow the use of command-line
arguments to the program call, and pass most or all of these options
(possibly parsed & manipulated by C) to my fortran routine. 

Is there a common way of getting command-line arguments / flags to fortran
in a more direct manner?

	--M.