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To: Gary Kendall <gdk@ccomp.inode.COM>
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Subject: Re: lib/libF77 and lib/libI77 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Sep 1997 19:47:41 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 18:11:08 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> The libf77.a library is the "standard library" that Fortran programs are
> linked against... similar to libc.a for C.  I'm not familiar with libIf77.a,
> but suspect it's a variation of the standard for some special feature.  At
> any rate, they come with the GNU compiler(s), and probably should be built
> by the Makefiles.

Yeah, but they're not and that means that they haven't been part of
the binary distributions, either.  So that begs the question: What has
this mysterious legion of fortran programmers been doing all this
time? :)

					Jordan