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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!tlihsin
- From: tlihsin@hubcap.clemson.edu (lih-sin the)
- Subject: Re: Fortran under OS2
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.182319.110@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- References: <20AUG199215502516@elroy.uh.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 18:23:19 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- elee969@elroy.uh.edu (Brown, William J.) writes:
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- >I am not at all familiar with the world of OS2, so I'm hoping that someone might
- >answer a few questions for me. As part of my research, I do quite a bit of
- >fortran programming which requires the use of rather large arrays. When I try
- >to run these programs thru Windows, I find I have to do quite a bit of tweaking
- >with the compiler settings just to get them to run. Even then, I still don't
- >get the correct answers, so I suspect my problem is the wacky memory limitations
- >of dos. Anyway, my question is - Are there fortran compilers for OS2 that will
- >allow me to run these large programs without having to worry about memory? I
- >know that the MS fortran is supposed to run under OS2 but I am quickly losing
- >faith in it. Also, I have a 386/40 with 8 megs of ram, is this machine capable
- >of handling OS2? How big should my hard drive be? Right now I have a 40 meg
- >hd which is compressed with Stacker, but I have heard that Stacker is not
- >compatible with OS2. Any input will be greatly appreciated.
-
- >William Brown
- >Applied Electromagnetics Group
- >Univ. of Houston
-
-
- I use f2c to translate my fortran program to C, and then use gcc or any
- C compiler to run my program in OS2. Both f2c and gcc is in
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. gcc/2 version 2.2.2 have been uploaded recently in
- /pub/download/gcc2-2.2.2. Since f2c and gcc are written for OS2, this
- should run about two times faster than MS fortran which was written for
- 16 bits machines.
- .
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