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Subject: Re: Free Fortran Compiler (BSD)
To: stevew@cpsnet.com (Steve Woods)
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 19:01:54 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <30FAB141.3BD4@cpsnet.com> from "Steve Woods" at Jan 15, 96 11:55:45 am
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> To whom this may concern:
> 
> I'm trying to download your "free" fortran compiler. I get the GZip file 
> okay, gunzip seems to extract it (and create the tar file) okay, bu when 
> I try and user tar -xf g77... I get a "end of medium on output".
> 
> I desparately need this compiler to convert some older programs on our 
> system - ANY ADVICE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!

My advice: Don't use g77 for mission critical projects. Use f77/f2c.
It's in the tree.  It's far more mature than g77. I ported large
400,000 line old and ugly FORTRAN mechanical engineering software
to FreeBSD using f2c/f77 and I don't regret a bit.


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve Woods
> PCH Systems
> 407/368-9301
> stevew@cpsnet.com
> 
> P.S. We are currently running BSDI Unix and have purchased technical 
> support from BSD!
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de