Category : C Source Code
Archive   : F2C-EXE.ZIP
Filename : README.DOS

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# f2c -- fortran 77 to C #
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To use:

1) place f2c.h in your INCLUDE path.
2) place the libraries (*.lib) in your LIB path.
3) place f2c.exe in your executable path (PATH)

examine the various readme's and notices.
The man page is in f2c.1, and the troff source is f2c.1t
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This f2c.exe executable and the libraries were compiled under Microsoft C 5.1
and f2c.exe was compressed with LZEXE v0.91.

If you use a different C compiler, you may need to recompile the libraries.

***The sources were obtained from research.att.com, and compiled with
essentially no modification (the link message in sysdep.c was changed
to reflect the microsoft link syntax and the names of the
supplied libraries.).

It will convert almost any f77 program to fairly portable C, but because
of the small memory available under DOS, some gigantic routines (thousands
of lines in one routine) may choke the translator. Well designed programs
with functions and subroutines do much better.

If f2c gives runs out of space while processing a file with a large number
of subroutines and functions, splitting up the file into two smaller ones
should fix the problem.

The libraries included are:

sf2c.lib - small model f2c floating point & i/o libraries (combined)
lf2c.lib - large model f2c floating point & i/o libraries (combined)