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From: svc@well.sf.ca.us (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: McFace MacFortran Toolkit for FREE !!
Summary: Name Confusion
Keywords: McFace, MacFortran, Fortran, FORTRAN, Absoft
Message-ID: <16585@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 9 Mar 90 17:42:58 GMT
References: <1358@polari.UUCP>
Reply-To: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1358@polari.UUCP> robert@polari.UUCP (robert) writes:
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>
> I just found the following notice posted in comp.archives. The notice
> was apparently not cross posted to comp.sys.mac or comp.sys.mac.programmer,
> so I thought I would post it here myself. If it's on the level, this
> sounds like a good deal for users of Absoft MacFortran. McFace, from
> what I've heard, is a subroutine library designed for people who want 
> to slap a quick interface on Fortran programs that they are porting
> to the Mac. I've never used it, but there was a favorable review in
> MacTutor (Vol 3, No. 7 or see "The Essential MacTutor", page 522).
> According to the notice below, it's FREE! And that's a price that's 
> hard to resist. A site for anonymous FTP is given below. Now, if some
> kind sole would just post it to comp.binaries.mac ? 
>
	Let me clear up some confusion here, so that people DO NOT think that
they are geting something different than what they really are.
	About 3-4 years ago a gentleman by the name of Dan Kampmeier, at the
University of Illinois wrote a program that was known as McFace.  It was a 
library of toolbox routines which made putting a Mac Interface onto Fortan code
_EXTREMELY_ easy.  With just a few alls to his library, you would have anb
application with full featured menus, dialogs, multiple windows, etc.  
	Sometime after that, there came a companion product called McFace Tools
which is the subroutine library which complimented McFace and added some add't
functionality to the McFace library.  This is the library that is now avail
free from FTP and has NEVER been reviewed in MacTutor (that was McFace). I have
not seen this product since version 1.0 (and it is now 4.0) so I can not
comment on its current form - but it's free....
	As to what happened to the original McFace, Dan renamed it to FaceIt
and has a nice business of selling it along with _MANY_ new 3rd party modules
for doing other types of interface extensions.  FaceIt now also supports most
/all langugges for the Mac (Pascal, C, Fortran, BASIC, Modula-2, etc.) and
is still a quick and easy way to add a Mac interface to your code.  It is more
powerful than things like the TCL/MacApp w/o the learning curve of OOP - but
it is nowhere close to as customizable.  Still nice for porting code, though.

	Hope that clears things up.


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