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In article <davidw.727655487@auck.irl.cri.nz> davidw@auck.irl.cri.nz writes:

>I recently upgraded to MS-Fortran 5.1, which can generate Windows
>programs. 
>
>I wish to associate the input files for my Fortran simulation with 
>the Windows .EXE file, AND get the input filename into the 
>simulation for character manipulation to generate corresponding 
>output filenames. 
>
>Eg, associate *.INP with SIMULATE.EXE. Now I want to be able to
>double-click on XYZ.INP (in FileManager) to run SIMULATE, opening
>XYZ.INP as input and generating XYZ.OUT for output. 
>
>My local Microsoft support provided information about accessing
>the PSP or PDB at the start of the app, and a Windows call:
>GetCurrentPDB(). Before looking into something that seems rather
>complex to me, has anyone solved this one already?
>
>david white                           davidw@auck.irl.cri.nz
>
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I've converted quite a number of FORTRAN codes to run under Windows.
My advice would be to convert your main program to a SUBROUTINE, and
add a small front end program in C which calls the FORTRAN code. That
way you can use all the standard C command-line parsing stuff.

Best wishes,

Chris
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