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From: kargl@apl.washington.edu (Steven G. Kargl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: F77 for *BSD?
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 10:00:46 -0700
Organization: Applied Physics Lab/University of Washington
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In article <3d9kecINNj33@diable.upc.es>, ilpide@pegaso.upc.es (Ilpide) wrote:

>         Hi! 
> 
>         Do u happen to know if there is a *true* (not f2c) Fortran 77 compiler
>         for the various flavours of *BSD?

The short answer is no.

The long answer: f2c is a FORTRAN 77 (+ some extensions) compiler.
It *compiles* FORTRAN 77 to C.  f2c, paired with gcc and gas, produces
very good results.  FreeBSD (and probably NetBSD) supplies a shell
script, f77, that handles the compilation of FORTRAN 77 to an executable.
Finally, f2c has very good vendor(?) support.  If you have a problem
post to comp.lang.fortran

NOTE:  The FSF's GNU project is producing a FORTRAN 77 compiler (called
g77).  The current status can be found by

finger -l fortran@alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu.

-- 
Steven G. Kargl
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98105