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1.1     ! root        1: re- Fortran to C conversion
        !             2: 
        !             3: The NA Digest of Sunday, November 19, 1989 (Volume 89 : Issue 45)
        !             4: carried the following announcement:
        !             5: 
        !             6: >From: Norm Schryer <[email protected]>
        !             7: Date: Thu, 16 Nov 89 17:17:35 EST
        !             8: Subject: Fortran 77 to C Converter Available via Netlib
        !             9: 
        !            10: The Unix command
        !            11: 
        !            12:     (echo filter f2c; cat file) | mail [email protected]
        !            13: 
        !            14: converts the Fortran 77 in "file" to C and returns it via email.
        !            15: 
        !            16: The converted C requires a "header" file which can be obtained by:
        !            17: 
        !            18:     echo "send f2c.h from f2c" | mail [email protected]
        !            19: 
        !            20: The command
        !            21: 
        !            22:     echo "send index from f2c" | mail [email protected]
        !            23: 
        !            24: returns an index of useful f2c information available from Netlib
        !            25: including a "man page", source for libraries, etc.
        !            26: 
        !            27: F2c "just" prints out the C parse tree internally produced by f77,
        !            28: the reliable old Fortran 77 compiler of Stu Feldman.
        !            29: The programming was done by D. M. Gay of Bell Labs and
        !            30: Mark Maimone of Carnegie-Mellon University.
        !            31: 
        !            32: The usual caveat applies:
        !            33:     The service is free and you get what you pay for.
        !            34: 
        !            35: An additional caveat is that a daemon saves the Fortran submitted
        !            36: to Netlib so we can do regression testing on f2c.
        !            37: 
        !            38: We intend to put f2c in the public domain and want as much
        !            39: experience with it as possible before foisting it on the world.
        !            40: 
        !            41: Comments, questions and complaints to
        !            42: 
        !            43:        Norm Schryer, [email protected], 201-582-2912.
        !            44: 
        !            45: --------------------------
        !            46: 
        !            47:   For more on netlib, see "Distribution of Mathematical Software
        !            48: by Electronic Mail" by Jack Dongarra and Eric Grosse, Communications
        !            49: of the ACM 30 #5 (May 1987), pp. 403-407.  To get the whole NA
        !            50: Digest of 19 Nov. 1989, execute the UNIX command
        !            51:     echo send v89n45 from na-digest | mail [email protected]
        !            52: 
        !            53:   Source for f2c is now available from netlib and ftp, as described
        !            54: in "index from f2c".

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