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drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice) writes:

>In <6AUG199216412212@rosie.uh.edu> st1ls@rosie.uh.edu (Nick Hakim) writes:

>>Does anyone know of any Public Domain or Shareware Fortran compilers for the
>>PC?  I know that commercial Fortran packages can be purchased (Lahey Fortran
>>comes to mind), but this is for a non-profit group that can't afford to cough
>>up any big buck$, and wants to move over some IBM mini version of Fortran code
>>to a PC platform.

>Lahey has a Personal version of their compiler available for $99.

Sorry, can't help with the free Fortran compiler, but...

Lahey give huge discounts to bona fide educational institutions (and
students, I believe) - so go and kick butt and tell 'em what you're
about and why you're non-profit.  With any luck (if there's any justice
left in this cruel world?!) they'll give you a compiler.

Lahey Fortran products are *good*.  You may be lucky, but IMHO I think
you're in for MEGA hassles if you go for 'free' shareware that does not
implement the full FORTRAN77 standard - which Lahey does.

The 'Personal version' referred to above, while implementing the full
standard, restricts the amount of array space you can declare - which is
very limiting if you have some serious programs to compile!  So get them
to *GIVE* you the F77L package with at least the Spindrift Utility
Library.  Their Graphoria and Spindrift Windows (not MS 3.1 compat.)
might prove useful to you as well!

And no... I don't work for Lahey - just a satisfied customer! :-)

Good luck!

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