problems with the MS-FORTRAN Power Station 4.0 (16 bit) under WINDOWS NT

[Frank Fuchs]

A week ago I installd the MS Fortran Power Station 4.0 (16 bit WIN3.11
Compiler) under WINDOWS NT. The Installation was succesful, but if I
compile a FORTRAN-file the error-message: 'mmd.386 was not loaded,
please load it in the file system.ini'.
However, it was loaded in the file 'system.ini'.
I think the problem is the registry under WINDOS NT in the registry
editor, but I don't know how to do it.

Please tell me a concret solution for my problem.

Thank you very much

Frank

[Carter Smith]

From your description, you must be using Fortran PowerStation 1.0 for DOS
and Windows, and not PowerStation 4.0. PowerStation 4.0 is designed for
Windows 95 and NT and does not use MMD.386.

The MMD.386 error message you are receiving is normal. PowerStation 1.0 for
DOS uses MMD.386 to communicate between the Workbench and the build tools.
MMD.386 is a virtual device driver designed for 16-bit Windows, and is
incompatible with NT. It doesn't matter whether the line is in your
SYSTEM.INI file, NT ignores it. Because of this, the Compile, Build, and
Rebuild All menu options will not work. For similar reasons, the debugger
will not work properly under NT. You should be able to use the Workbench as
an editor and for the online help, however.

The only way to compile code with PowerStation 1.0 for DOS on NT is to run
the build tools from a command line, and even for command line usage you
need to use the B2FIX patch. It is available from

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/fortran/public/

There is also an updated linker there that you will probably want to use in
the file FPSNTU01.EXE.

Hope this helps.

--Carter

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