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From: "Keith WIllshaw" <keith_willshaw@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]
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Tarjei T. Jensen <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote in message
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>

>
>
> I worked for a company that had a lot of DEC fortran code. They solved the
> problem by buying compilers with DEC fortran extensions.
>
> Perhaps your people choose the wrong extensions :-)
>

We liiked at that option and could have gone that way for NT
but that only perpetuates the problem

Anyway we support SG , SUN , HP , RS6000 , DEC Ultrix
, NT and WIN9x

It was better to bite the bullet and go back to Ansi Standard
Fortran ( and we rewrote the Graphics stuff in C)

Keith