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   R Daneel Olivaw to Lynn McGuire   
   Re: pls suggest me a simple but good com   
   03 Nov 25 22:41:10   
   
   XPost: openwatcom.users.fortran   
   From: Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid   
      
   Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   > On 11/3/2025 12:42 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   >> [Didn't see the original post]   
   >>   
   >> merl the perl  schrieb:   
   >>>   
   >>> "ginko"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:mn.4c7b7d7791a9bc7c.77691@ginko.ginko...   
   >>>> hello, i am using FORCE 2.0 compiler for fortran 77.   
   >>>> can you please suggest me a good and simple compiler for fortran 77?   
   >>   
   >> Fortran 77 is a subset of more modern version of the languages defined   
   >> in Fortran 90, 95, 2003, 2008, 2018 and 2023.   
   >>   
   >> I would suggest gfortran, which is freely available and supported,   
   >> also for new architectures.   
   >>   
   >>>> force is not good as it adds automatically a new line after every WRITE   
   >>>> statement   
   >>   
   >> That has always been the case.  In the past, non-standard edit   
   >> descriptors such as "$" have been used to suppess this.  Never   
   >> versions have ADVANCE="NO" for that reason.   
   >>   
   >>> [x-posted to openwatcom.users.fortran]   
   >>> I think openwatcom might be just the ticket.  They even have a fledgling   
   >>> newsgroup started.   
   >>   
   >> I don't know about that compiler.   
   >   
   > This was a 2007 post that you responded to.  Ray Banana kindly   
   > resurrected the openwatcom groups at my question of their existence with   
   > all of their posts.  If asked, I would have told him to just let them go.   
   >   
   > Lynn   
   >   
      
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   zombie (as opposed to a zombie process).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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