XPost: openwatcom.users.fortran   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   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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