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Topic: Plate flexure code |
LitusSaxonicum
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Forum: General Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:14 am Subject: |
John,
The reference is in my original post. I have a copy somewhere, but can't find it. I'll look again. I'll send you the files via WeTransfer.
Best regards
Eddie |
Topic: Plate flexure code |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 4
Views: 1339
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Forum: General Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:11 am Subject: |
Hi Lester,
If you send me a PM (private message) then I'll send you the whole shebang via WeTransfer. I used Dropbox for a long time, but they changed the way it was used and I couldn't get on with ... |
Topic: Plate flexure code |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 4
Views: 1339
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Forum: General Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 3:55 pm Subject: Plate flexure code |
Nearly 50 years ago, I shared an office with a structural engineer*, who saw the following paper and asked me if I would program up the method for him. At the time, I was using the then current Swanse ... |
Topic: How this error even can appear? |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 13
Views: 8446
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 4:26 pm Subject: |
Dan,
The devilry that you so often encounter is probably the result of the satanic rituals implicit in your programming style.
A sprinkling of the following holy water may help:
Keep the subp ... |
Topic: Clearwin based message for warnings/infos |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 21
Views: 16257
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 8:37 pm Subject: |
Well that's probably the mistake Dan made as well as I did.
Fortunately, I already knew where to look!
Eddie |
Topic: Clearwin based message for warnings/infos |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 21
Views: 16257
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:46 pm Subject: |
Dan,
Paul is right about the 'Format code reference' in the FTN95.CHM file, although I couldn't search successfully for %ld in that file. As for Dan's comment about the instructions being in C, tha ... |
Topic: Clearwin based message for warnings/infos |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 21
Views: 16257
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2023 6:13 pm Subject: |
You could always use %ld with traffic signal colours , and as you can use the option blinking to call attention to it.
Eddie |
Topic: %pl is wonderful |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 11
Views: 9827
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 1:10 pm Subject: |
Hi Ken,
I see from a 'history' in an old program that I got my first contouring algorithm working in May 1976. It was for nodal values in a finite element program. It took me a while longer to be ... |
Topic: %pl is wonderful |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 11
Views: 9827
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Forum: ClearWin+ Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2023 7:35 pm Subject: |
Kenneth, I think that your sentiment is fine, but your scope is a little limited. Instead, the whole of FTN95 and ClearWin+ is wonderful !
Nice plots, by the way.
Eddie |
Topic: Query about making a free graphics library DLL available |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 7
Views: 16574
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Forum: General Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2023 11:28 am Subject: |
In principle, I'm interested.
As far as OpenGL is concerned, I have looked in vain for a comprehensible guide, but can't find one. Dan, how about writing one?
Eddie |
Topic: Probably the most wrong thing in a Fortran book ... |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 4
Views: 6463
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Forum: General Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 9:24 am Subject: |
Hi John,
I have the Kindle edition, published 21 Feb 2023. The 'cover' (because Kindle books don't really have a cover) has '2023' on it in a large font. To be fair, I found some of the description ... |
Topic: Probably the most wrong thing in a Fortran book ... |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 4
Views: 6463
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2023 2:22 pm Subject: Probably the most wrong thing in a Fortran book ... |
In: 'Mastering Fortran, A Comprehensive Guide to Programming in Fortran', the authoress Sarah Johnson tells us that an EXTERNAL subroutine or function is one that resides in a different source code fi ... |
Topic: DIRENT@ problem on FTN 8.95.0 |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 8
Views: 10561
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Forum: Support Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2023 9:21 am Subject: |
Hi Paul,
Well, that is (or are) maybe the ones that don't work. What I also suspect is that there are many useful routines in the support for FTN77. Not everyone knows about FTN77, or even that its ... |
Topic: DIRENT@ problem on FTN 8.95.0 |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 8
Views: 10561
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Forum: Support Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2023 11:18 am Subject: |
Wouldn't it be a great idea if someone went through the documentation for the old FTN77 libraries, identifying which routines still work, which ones don't work, and which ones have been superceded?
... |
Topic: Spockian illogicality |
LitusSaxonicum
Replies: 3
Views: 7535
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Forum: Support Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2023 5:21 pm Subject: |
Aye, and especially difficult as it works in one place, and not in another! |
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