Fortran Main with C I/O

[Bill Silvert]

In article <1044 at helens.Stanford.EDU> joe at hanauma.Stanford.EDU (Joe Dellinger) writes:
>
>We just got the latest OS upgrade, which is the first one to be
>"POSIX-compliant". Now we are told "if you want to be able to use C I/O
>you'll have to have your mains in C"! This means rewriting a LOT of software.
>
>	OK. Are we really a special case? Is there anybody else out there
>that writes Fortran mains but uses C to do the I/O? If so, let me know, so
>we can make a case to them not to do this!

This would be an absolute disaster.  We use C I/O extensively for things
like graphics, raw input, and to do things like display a file directory
when asking the user to input a data file name.  If true, someone had
better come up with a fix awfully fast!

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