Fortran Tutorial Comments

This Fortran77 tutorial has been adapted from a tutorial created for use at Stanford University for class SCCM-001-F. The SCCM-001-F Tutorial is available on the Web at www-leland.stanford.edu/class/sccm001/tutorial/.

The modifications to the tutorial are as follows:

  1. Lessons 4 (Compiling and Linking) and 19 (Debugging) have been completely rewritten for use with the MSDOS BC-Fortran77 compiler.
  2. Exercises have been moved from homework assignments to the tutorial lesson to which they apply.
  3. The order of the lessons has been changed.
  4. Some modifications have been made to the Fortran77 code. examples to make them compatiable with the MSDOS BC-Fortran77 compiler.
  5. Minor corrections have been made to the HTML code.
  6. Tutorial navigation has been added and all navigational references in the tutorial have been changed to local references.
  7. Hypertext links to Web sites in the tutorial have been checked and corrected as necessary for link rot.
  8. All filenames in the tutorial changed to 8.3 filenames for local use with Windows 3.x and MSDOS systems.

Notes on the BC-Fortran compiler

This tutorial has been designed for use with the BC-Fortran77 compiler, version 1.3, and MS-DOS. The compiler is available for download from Jumbo.com as bcf7713b.zip. Use of the compiler is free for non-commercial uses. The BC-Fortran77 compiler is copyrighted by Andre Koestli of Stuttgart, Germany and all error messages are in German. An English translation of the documentation is included in the PKZIP file (bcf7713b.zip).

I have tested the BC-Fortran compiler (ver. 1.3) with the code in the tutorial on a number of different MSDOS systems. It will run in an MSDOS window in Windows95 or Windows 3.x. Here are some usage hints based on my experience with this package:

Steve Terry, November, 1997


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