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                      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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