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From: reeves@dvinci.usask.ca (Malcolm Reeves)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Are there any Fortran to Pascal translators
Message-ID: <1990Feb16.014955.3372@dvinci.usask.ca>
Date: 16 Feb 90 01:49:55 GMT
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Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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From article <22404@adm.BRL.MIL>, by J_SCHULL%HVRFORD.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Jonathan Schull):

I've had the same problem. My solution is:

Strip all the I/O out of the FORTRAN - this usually reduces the size of .exe 
files considerably.
Exec the compiled FORTRAN from TP5 - make sure you use IEEE number formats in
both languages.
Pass data by reading external files - I use unformatted FORTRAN records which
are easy to read in TP5 - ASCII is much slower.

I use this alot for large numerical codes in FORTRAN so that TP5 can provide
a more convenient "front end" and more flexible graphics post-processing. It
avoids replacing large amounts of relatively efficient bug-free FORTRAN but
allows you to use all the good things in TP5. If anyone can tell me how to
access "COMMON BLOCKS" after a TP5 exec I could avoid alot of file writing.
It should be possible to "find" the memory addresses and hook the data with
pointers but life's too short  .....