[comp.lang.fortran] Fortran bindings

carter@ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov (Dave Carter) (12/19/90)

In article <GARYO.90Dec18190648@prometheus.think.com> garyo@think.com (Gary Oberbrunner) writes:
>Are there any Fortran bindings for X11 (PD or commercial)?  If not, how do
>Fortran people generally access X11 functionality?  By writing C routines
>and linking them in?  By using a higher-level package that does the X
>calling?  By using a separate process to do the graphics and communicating
>to it over an I/O channel/socket/stream/pipe/whatever?  By giving up
>entirely and poring over big tables of numbers?
>
>Please respond to me directly at garyo@think.com, as I cannot keep up with
>all of the volume in this newsgroup any more (though I still try...)

please keep me informed on all responses you get to this.  i've been
working on this myself.  i did quite a bit of X programming in fortran
when i worked at athena, but i used a commercial package.  i'd be
interested in discussing this with anyone else who works a lot in X
and fortran.

							- dave