cynthia@cod.NOSC.MIL (Cynthia G. Anderson) (09/17/88)
hello i need some help and hope someone out there can point me in the right direction, or to the right books/articles/etc. i'm writing a driver program in C. (why? cuz C's flexible) The program has to be able to call sub-programs that are in other languages, namely Pascal and Fortran; run these sub-units (actually they're simulation models) and pass the appropriate outputs to the next thing that needs those outputs as it's inputs. so, the first part of the problem is that i need to know HOW to write the interface such that i can have non-C sub-units. And two how to pass information so that it is "digestable" to the sub-unit needing it. the next part of the problem is that part of the whole program will reside on a Mac II and the other part (sub-unit:Fortran) will run and reside on a VAX and only pass data back to the Mac, when told to execute. so if any one, has ANY ideas on how to go about doing this or where i should look for more information on dealing with these kinds of problems--I WOULD BE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL GRATEFUL GRATEFUL!!! (hey, what can i say...it's a fun project, i just have some holes in my knowledge...) Thanks in Advance, please MAIL replies to cynthia@cod.nosc.mil i will summarize to the net if enuff interest is indicated. cynthia anderson Disclaimer: "In this case, my company agrees with me."