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Subject: Re: PC FORTRAN compiler?
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Date: 12 Jan 90 18:44:49 GMT
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>Anybody know of an AFFORDABLE Fortran-77 compiler?  No gee-whiz stuff or
>even VAX extensions, just a solid, clean F-77 standard?  Has anyone used
>the Ryan-McFarland or other compilers?

I converted about 10,000 lines of Fortran 77 originally written for
an IBM 370 series machine to an IBM PC (clone) using Ryan-McFarlands
fortran compiler.  No problem or inconsistancies whatever.
There was a problem doing the same task using IBM's Fortran Compiler
(written by R-M) and running the software on a clone.  Seems as there
was some obscure timing problem that enabled the code to run perfectly
on a true blue IBM PC, but not on a clone....of course that suited
IBM just fine.  The programmers at R-M alerted me to that fact after
I spent days trying to figure out why the program would simply stop
at different times (abend) and at other times run to completion.
   They guaranteed me that the code would run perfectly if I bought
the version of the compiler they marketed directly.  I did and the
code did run perfectly on any clone I installed the software on.
   I have to give the people at R-M high marks for customer support
if that is worth anything to anybody.

David R. Forsman...now writing most applications in QuickBasic