Re: Downloading and installing Fortran 77 Free Software

["Tim Prince" <tprince at computer dot org>]

Follow the links to the cygwin or mingw pre-built versions of gcc, but
we have a Presario too, and no one is going to make special allowances
for its special crippled features.
----- Original Message -----
From: <JReinmann524@aol.com>
To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 6:06 PM
Subject: Downloading and installing Fortran 77 Free Software


> Hello there at GNU.
>
> I need a Fortran applications program.  It doesn't have to be the
latest and
> greatest Fortran compiler; it just has to run standard ANSI Fortran 77
> programs.  Several persons have directed me to GNU.  I have been
studying all
> the info on your GCC homepage and am terribly confused about what and
how to
> download the correct files that would give me a Fortran program that
would
> work with Windows 95 on my COMPAQ Pressario  PC.
>
> I would like to put in place a Fortran applications program that 1) I
could
> activate by double clicking on the icon in Windows; 2) create Fortran
> programs in a word processor program and save them in a file;  3) load
those
> programs into the Fortran window and run them; and 4) get the output
either
> to the screen or to my printer.
>
> Is this something that GNU can do for me?  And if it can, can you walk
me
> through the steps necessary to get the job done?
>
> Although I run some fairly sophisticated applications programs on my
PC, I am
> not familiar with its operating systems.
>
> Sincerely
>
> John Reinmann
>
> email:       jreinmann524@aol.com
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