beumer@marlin.NOSC.MIL (Halton R. Beumer) (06/25/91)
Recently, there has been some traffic in comp.lang.fortran about FORCHEK, a lint like program for FORTRAN from Bob Moniot. I emailed him directly about it and he asked me to post the following. Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 15:09 EST From: <MONIOT%FORDMULC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Subject: Forchek and netlib and USENET To: beumer@sunspot.nosc.mil X-Original-To: beumer%sunspot.nosc.mil@nosc.mil, MONIOT > Several people indicated on postings to USENET in comp.lang.fortran >that netlib@research.att.com was THE place to get FORCHEK. It appears that netlib@research.att.com is supposed to be a mirror-image of netlib@ornl.gov, but evidently the latter is copied over to the former only at somewhat long intervals. For instance, this spring, Forchek was upgraded to Version 2.2 and moved from misc to a newly formed section called fortran in netlib@ornl.gov, but none of these changes have shown up at netlib@research.att.com. I will have to send a memo to Jack Dongarra and/or Eric Grosse. I think I'll wait till Version 2.3 goes out, since it is practically ready. In any case, till the question of synchronization is resolved, netlib@ornl.gov always has the latest version. >You might want to ask the >question on USENET in comp.lang.fortran. There has been quite a discussion >going on about FORCHEK and other FORTRAN lint like tools recently. Your name >has been mentioned repeatedly by others in the news group but I have never >seen you post to it. I suspected something like this was going on. I am on Bitnet, and I do not have access to an Internet site with news. Is there any way interesting things can be forwarded to me from there? Is there a way I can post to it by email? Till then, you might forward this message to comp.lang.fortran for me. > > There is a screaming need for a tool like FORCHEK to help people using >SunFortran on Sun Microsystems computers. SunFortran has neither a table >generator nor a cross reference table generator and is basically a lousy >language to work in. And everybody appears to be buying Suns. Has anyone ever >suggested or is anyone working on tweaking FORCHEK to support Suns? Please realize that this is a shoestring operation. Forchek began life as a project for a couple of bright seniors. At the moment I don't have a student working for me (though one is nibbling at the hook), so the only thing that gets done is maintenance. I put in some of my own time last month adding a few most-requested items to Forchek, but anything that will require much work has to wait. Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Regards, Bob Moniot Fordham University College at Lincoln Center New York, NY 10023 (212) 841-5391 MONIOT@FORDMULC.BITNET ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hal Beumer beumer@sunspot.nosc.mil Genisys Info Systems 4250 Pacific Highway Suite 118 San Diego, CA, USA