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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
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- From: davet@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Dave Tutelman)
- Subject: Re: Fortran Grammar...
- Organization: AT&T Bell Labs - Lincroft, NJ
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:44:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.124451.11804@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Summary: There IS a free MSDOS Fortran
- References: <C0JyKK.BHJ@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> <9301094599@fcshome.UUCP> <C0M1Cw.8zv@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
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- In article <C0M1Cw.8zv@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
- >In article <9301094599@fcshome.UUCP> fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith) writes:
- >>Denis Beauregard (beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca) wrote:
- >>: ... [ attribution lost ] ... wrote:
- >>: >Do you know of a document that presents the grammar of the Fortran
- >>: >language ? I have the compiler, but no documentation, and I don't know
- >>: >what to do...
- >>
- >>: What about buying a legal copy?
- >>
- >>Yes. However, some of us have fortran tools such as Bellcore's f2c
- >>fortran to C converter which comes with a nice man page describing the
- >>compiler options, but assumes you already know F77.
- >
- >Maybe, but the original poster is talking about a compiler, not a converter,
- >and I don't know any compiler sold without documentation.
- >I meant here (see the newsgroup line) for the MS-DOS world....
-
- Gee, and it's just a week since I posted my summary of the cheap/free
- Fortrans for MSDOS in this very newsgroup. Try an archive site near you
- for BCF7713B.ZIP, a completely freeware FORTRAN (restricted to non-military
- applications).
-
- My guess is that the original poster is using this Fortran 77, which comes
- with about 8 pages of compiler/linker docs, but nothing about the language.
- I had the same problem. I haven't written a Fortran program in over 20
- years (and F77 is somewhat different, and better, than the old Fortran 2
- that I used). I had to go to my kids for manuals; both of them have good
- manuals, textbooks they have acquired in various courses.
-
- On the plus side, there are LOTS of books (probably several in your
- engineering library) on Fortran 77. It's hardly an obscure language.
-
- >Anyway, you can continue the work of a predecessor who lived with the docs,
- >so I give the benefits of doubt to the original poster.
-
- That's big of you, but there's a much simpler explanation.
-
- Dave
-