Bill Walker wrote:
> I gave up trying to get gfortran to work on my vista machine.

Why? Lots of people run gfortran on vista. As of gcc 4.3 or so
it has become very stable. Many *major* applications have been
successfully compiled by it. (Though for best performance, they
would probably use compilers like Intel or Pathscale.)

> ... I found a
> compiler called Supersoft Fortran. It compiles a test program OK. Seems
> to be somewhat FORTRAN 77 compliant. Does any one have the docs on this
> compiler? Ever used it?

Yuck. Don't bother. IIRC, it didn't even have a CHARACTER data type.
Why even consider a compiler that was no good 20 years ago, and has not
been developed nor supported since then?

My advice is to figure out what the issue is with gfortran. Then
be happy.

Alternatively, you might try Andys g95 compiler (http://www.g95.org).
It does not implement as much of F2003 as gfortran, but does have a
few interesting features of its own.

Another alternative, free for personal use, is the Salford/Silverfrost
FTN95 compiler. (http://www.silverfrost.com)

W.