FORTRAN 5.1 README.DOC: Setup

 Last reviewed: July 1, 1997
Article ID: Q73266
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The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft FORTRAN for MS-DOS, version 5.1
  • Microsoft FORTRAN for OS/2, version 5.1

SUMMARY

The following is the "Setup" section from the FORTRAN version 5.1 README.DOC: 

                            README.DOC File
              Release notes for the Microsoft(R) FORTRAN
             Professional Development System, Version 5.1
This document contains release notes for version 5.1 of the Microsoft FORTRAN Professional Development System for MS-DOS(R) and the Microsoft Operating System/2 (MS(R) OS/2). The information in this document is more up-to-date than that in the manuals and the Microsoft Advisor (online help).

Microsoft improves its languages documentation at the time of reprinting, so some of the information in this file may already be in your manuals.

=====================< The SETUP Program >===========================

Disk Space for Additional Libraries

Each library for a different combination of memory model and floating-point arithmetic requires a minimum of 220K of disk space. If you intend to create more than one library when running SETUP, be sure to take into account the additional disk space required.

DECOMP.EXE

The files on the FORTRAN 5.1 disks are compressed. SETUP uses a utility called DECOMP.EXE to decompress the files before copying them to your hard disk. Normally you should use SETUP to copy files, and they will be decompressed automatically.

Occasionally, however, you may want to copy a file from the SETUP disks directly to your hard disk without using the SETUP program. In that case, you will have to use the DECOMP.EXE utility to decompress the file. The syntax for DECOMP.EXE is: 

     DECOMP filename.ab$ filename.abc
where filename.abc is the decompressed filename.

All compressed files end with $. If the filename extension is three characters long, the final character will be replaced with a $. If the extension is two characters, the two characters will be retained and a $ will be placed in the third position. If the extension has one character, then that character will be retained and followed by a $. If there is no extension, then the filename will be given a suffix of a single $.

For example: 

     f1.ex$      ->  f1.exe
     source.do$  -> source.doc
     flib.fd$    -> flib.fd
     mulmix.c$   -> mulmix.c
     makefile.$  -> makefile

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