jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) (09/20/90)
At present, I know of only 2 FORTRAN compilers for A/UX that support
VAX-FORTRAN extensions: NKR FORTRAN (NKR Research) and MacFORTRANII (Absoft).
These are also the only 2 that show up in the A/UX 3rd party users guide.
Anyway, I've been using NKR for about a year now. I've had no trouble with
it compiling VAX FORTRAN programs, except for some functions not being
available under NKR (such as COSD, or whatever it's called). Also, you
must reopen the terminal (UNIT=6) to accept carriage-control formatting
(this seems default to VAX) in case you do a lot of terminal printing
and formatting. The only real trouble with it is that you can't use sdb
on it... this is supposedly being fixed.
Support has been exceptional. Updates consist of new software AND manual
pages. In many cases a bug report has resulted in a newer version being
written and sent out IN A FEW DAYS TIME!
I don't have MacFORTRANII yet... it's on order and I hope I'll be getting
it soon. It seems to be more complete in it's support of VAX extensions
so I'll see. Anyway, when I get it I'll let the net know how it works.
PS: Does ANYONE have that TEAC driver that's been floating around? Tony
seems exceptionally busy and I haven't been able to get a copy
from him yet and it's getting pretty bad doing cpio to the 40SC
and using ExpressTape to do partition image backups...
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