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From: thorson@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Bill Thorson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: need advice porting program from VMS to Sun3
Keywords: fortran, Sun workstation
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Date: 25 Sep 89 14:51:35 GMT
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In article <3542@sbcs.sunysb.edu> cchen@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Chyouhwa Chen) writes:

>I just ordered a 100K lines program written in VMS fortran for my
>research.  I would like to port it to the Sun3 environment.

I thought all Sun's had basically the same FORTRAN compilers.  Our Sun's
FORTRAN came with a translator for VMS FORTRAN.  The translator is called
f77cvt.  The way our compiler works is that if the file name ends with
.vf or .for it is assumed to be VMS FORTRAN and if run throught the
translator.

>- Chyouhwa
>  cchen@sbcs.sunysb.edu

Bill Thorson
thorson.atmos.colostate.edu