Re: looking for F77, RATFOR for RT-11

Jerome H. Fine

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Feb 1, 2012, 9:23:09 PM2/1/12

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>John Wallace wrote:

On Feb 1, 2:02 am, JackRubin <jack.ru...@ameritech.net> wrote:

Can anybody help me find sources/binaries for F77 and/or RATFOR for
RT-11?

Thanks,
Jack

Was there an F77 for RT11? My recollection (from a very long time ago)
says there was FORTRAN IV but not F77, but this could well be wrong.
http://pdp-11.org.ru/info.pl finds an RT11 manual for FORTRAN IV but
no manual for RT11/F77.

>parmucho wrote:
>Yes, F77 was available for RT-11:
>See http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/fortran/rt11_f77/

As for the actual F77.SAV file and library, that is another matter.
But it definitely does exist and is available, just not sure exactly
where at this moment.

Language improvements in F77 meant that folks who had F77 had less
reason to use RATFOR than those who only had FORTRAN IV.

With F77, it is MUCH easier to write code without a GOTO.

In addition, INTEGER *4 (a 32 bit integer) is explicitly supported.

The calling conventions to subroutines are more controlled since
there is always a pointer to the argument block even when
there are no arguments.

One "NICE" program written in F77 is "UNMAC.SAV"
which can convert many OBJ files back to MAC files.
There are both RT-11 and RSX-11 versions, as far as
I can remember, which can read both RT-11 and RSX-11
style OBJ files.

Jerome Fine

Bob Koehler

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Feb 2, 2012, 10:07:58 AM2/2/12

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On Feb 1, 2:02 am, JackRubin <jack.ru...@ameritech.net> wrote:

>Can anybody help me find sources/binaries for F77 and/or RATFOR for
>RT-11?
>
>Thanks,
>Jack

I think I have both the RATFOR source for RATFOR and the bootstrap
Fortran source, but it's a copy that runs on VMS and I don't know
if there are any compatability issues in the generated code.

Jim

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Feb 2, 2012, 11:06:53 AM2/2/12

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In article <cEUphT...@eisner.encompasserve.org>,

I was just looking and found two versions of Ratfor for RT-11 in ZIP
files.

One is the sources - both Fortran and Ratfor - from Brian Kernigan's
book.

The other is the sources from DECUS that Bob Denny (I think) did.

I would be happy to provide them to who ever wants them.

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Jerome H. Fine

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Feb 2, 2012, 10:55:40 PM2/2/12

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>Jim wrote:

In article Jim wrote:

>On Feb 1, 2:02 am, Jack Rubin wrote:

Can anybody help me find sources/binaries for F77 and/or RATFOR for
RT-11?

Thanks,
Jack

   I think I have both the RATFOR source for RATFOR and the bootstrap
   Fortran source, but it's a copy that runs on VMS and I don't know
   if there are any compatability issues in the generated code.

I was just looking and found two versions of Ratfor for RT-11 in ZIP 
files.

One is the sources - both Fortran and Ratfor - from Brian Kernigan's 
book.

The other is the sources from DECUS that Bob Denny (I think) did.

I would be happy to provide them to who ever wants them.

If you have my e-mail address, PLEASE send the files!!!

Jerome Fine

Tim Shoppa

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Feb 3, 2012, 7:30:49 AM2/3/12

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On Feb 1, 9:23 pm, "Jerome H. Fine" <every...@nospam.com> wrote:
> >John Wallace wrote:
> >On Feb 1, 2:02 am, JackRubin <jack.ru...@ameritech.net> wrote:
>
> >>Can anybody help me find sources/binaries for F77 and/or RATFOR for
> >>RT-11?
>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Jack

DECUS port of RATFOR: ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/rt11freewarev2/split/sigtapes/11sp17/

Several different binary dists of F77 for RT-11:
ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/rt_dists/layered/

Tim.

JackRubin

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Feb 5, 2012, 11:40:34 PM2/5/12

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Thanks - I've downloaded a bunch of files and will sort through them
as soon as I can.
Jack

JackRubin

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Feb 5, 2012, 11:39:22 PM2/5/12

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On Feb 2, 10:06 am, Jim <n...@spam.plz> wrote:
> In article <cEUphTq7h...@eisner.encompasserve.org>,

Yes, I'd be interested too.
Jack

Jim

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Feb 6, 2012, 11:13:34 AM2/6/12

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In article <4f2b5ad1$0$283$1472...@news.sunsite.dk>,

Emailed.

Enjoy

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