Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 15:50:53 GMT
From: kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Christoph Kukulies)
To: greve AT rs1 DOT thch DOT uni-bonn DOT de, jz0t AT erctitan DOT me DOT wisc DOT edu
Subject: Re: Beginner needs help!
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

On behalf of some disencouraging comments on f2c usage I want to leave
a word 100% in contrary to these statements:

I'm using f2c (research.att.com) under SCO UNIX (and all other UNIX
platforms, apollo, sun, rs6000, hp9000, mips (dec and sgi)) and must say
that it is the one and only *true* f77 compiler and *the* fortran compiler of
my choice.

I have ported a 400,000 line fortran program to these unix platforms and now
it comes, folks:

I'm using the object code from SCO UNIX (.o files), transfer them to DOS
and link it with a libf2c.a (which I have ported by the same means) and link the final a.out
under DOS.

The objects produced under SCO are generated by a special gcc(386)/a386
which I customized to cross compile under SCO. The produced a.out format
is compatible (who's wondering?) with djgpp (gcc under DOS).

Although I can, of course, run f2c.exe under DOS and use gcc (djgpp) there
it is an extreme comfort to have the bulk of the source on a UNIX filesystem.

I have mounted the according directories via ftp's PCTCP (NFS) into my
DOS system. 

Anyone still saying anything against f2c ?


--Chris