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From: frodo@wlcrjs.UUCP (James M. Scardelis)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: pc/at, xenix and ratfor
Message-ID: <487@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Dec-84 04:25:17 EST
Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.487
Posted: Sat Dec 29 04:25:17 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Dec-84 00:53:14 EST
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Reply-To: frodo@wlcrjs.UUCP (James M. Scardelis)
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In article <420@ecsvax.UUCP> fwy@ecsvax.UUCP writes:
>I've been told that Xenix for the IBM-PC/AT comes with a RATFOR compiler, 
>which unlike other RATFORs, converts to C source insted of FORTRAN.
>
>Does anyone know more about this?  Is it true?  Has anyone used it?  
>Is this true for Xenix on other machines?

If you look at the manual entry for RATFOR in the Xenix Software Commands
Guide, provided with PC/AT Xenix, a note at the end says:

	This program generates C source code which in segmented
	memory systems can only be used as a small model program.

or something to that effect. All of the manual entries for things which
generate code say the same thing (probably a troff macro). 

However, when I tried out the Ratfor, {Not knowing much Ratfor, of course}
the stuff coming out certainly looked like FORTRAN.

If someone would provide me with a sample RATFOR program, I'll run it through
the compiler and post the output I get.

		-Jim Scardelis
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