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From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [HOPE] Macro expansion to the FreeBSD f77.
Date: 13 Sep 1996 15:38:51 +0100
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[Why was I reading this in gnu.misc.discuss?]

>>>>> "Steven" == Steven G Kargl <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes:

 Steven> I've written a wrapper utility around the f2c+gcc combination
 Steven> that will work in the manner you describe.

The `fc' script in the Netlib distribution of f2c already processes .F
files with cpp.  See also Linux archives for the Perl script `fort77'.

I'd commend g77 to BSD users as probably a better option on balance
than f2c these days, though YMMV.