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From: mike@hpfcso.HP.COM (Mike McNelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: NCAR Graphics on an HP835SE
Message-ID: <7370082@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 90 20:39:09 GMT
References: <1608@sparko.gwu.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> We are having great difficulty installing NCAR GRAPHICS on an HP9000-835SE
> running 3.1.  Among the problems are:
> the machine-dependant routines that must be
> properly implemented for our system. The code is predominantly in Fortran
> with calling sequences to C support routines. These calling sequences are
> system-dependant. Also, the HP Fortran has a slightly different syntax
> than standard. The result, at compilation, is many source code errors
> throughout hundreds of files. A debugging strategy is not a reasonable
> alternative here. Has anyone run into this problem and how has it been
> solved?  or can anyone let us ftp over the executables and supporting files
> so we can get running?

Could you elaborate on what you find to be "a slightly different syntax
than standard"?  To my knowledge all HP-UX machines are complient with
ANSI.  If there's a problem we'd like to know about it.

Mike McNelly
mike%hpfcla@hplabs.hp.com