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In article <C0M1Cw.8zv@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
>In article <9301094599@fcshome.UUCP> fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith) writes:
>>Denis Beauregard (beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca) wrote:
>>: ... [ attribution lost ] ... wrote:
>>: >Do you know of a document that presents the grammar of the Fortran
>>: >language ? I have the compiler, but no documentation, and I don't know
>>: >what to do...
>>
>>: What about buying a legal copy?
>>
>>Yes. However, some of us have fortran tools such as Bellcore's f2c
>>fortran to C converter which comes with a nice man page describing the
>>compiler options, but assumes you already know F77. 
>
>Maybe, but the original poster is talking about a compiler, not a converter,
>and I don't know any compiler sold without documentation.
>I meant here (see the newsgroup line) for the MS-DOS world....

Gee, and it's just a week since I posted my summary of the cheap/free
Fortrans for MSDOS in this very newsgroup.  Try an archive site near you
for BCF7713B.ZIP, a completely freeware FORTRAN (restricted to non-military
applications).

My guess is that the original poster is using this Fortran 77, which comes
with about 8 pages of compiler/linker docs, but nothing about the language.
I had the same problem.  I haven't written a Fortran program in over 20
years (and F77 is somewhat different, and better, than the old Fortran 2
that I used).  I had to go to my kids for manuals; both of them have good
manuals, textbooks they have acquired in various courses.

On the plus side, there are LOTS of books (probably several in your
engineering library) on Fortran 77.  It's hardly an obscure language.

>Anyway, you can continue the work of a predecessor who lived with the docs,
>so I give the benefits of doubt to the original poster.

That's big of you, but there's a much simpler explanation.

Dave