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My conscience is really bothering me about this. I know it won't be enough, but I have to try again.
Silverfrost has released a very good, well-working, compiler suite with thorough, well written doc ...

Wow. I say wow because I think the SF folks could have done a far far better job at explaining this very simple (but unbelievably tedious) task.
Again, I am using 20-year old commercial modules that ...

Now I am really confused. The SF help files, under 'getting started...using plato' say:

:FTN95 is invoked from a command line and you can work directly from the command line if you prefer (see Comp ...

Well this is interesting. The '.mod' and '.o' files are those produced by compiling the modules WITH SILVERFROST. The SF help files say to make sure that one uses SF own object files.

I am using Si ...

I have tried all of these, with the exception of trying to jam modules into some 'default' directory - which surely should not be required for a usable compiler.

Setting a system-wide environment v ...

If this is one of those 'already answered' topics, please direct me to the 'answer', because it is completely invisible to me. I have seen quite a few querries on the same subject, but absolut ...

I have Windows 7 Pro, 64 bit; Silverfrost personal with Plato 4.3.0.

My MS mouse wheel will not scroll text in Plato, whether I click into the text or not.

The mouse scrolls all other text files ...

wow. So good.

After I posted that, I thought gee, it must be there somewhere.

Whoever wrote that (Plato), thanks. Just what is needed.

jack

I prefer an IDE like Plato rather than Visual Studio incantations.

However, I do miss the thumbwheel support; I am frequently in the middle of a source file with the mouse, editing, and it is so co ...

I got it to work finally. Thanks.

Note that I could always use Plato to 'build' from the source file.
Initially, using the command prompt gave me an error. Now it works.

The readme in 'FTN95 Examples' says to run the bat file to confirm installation. But - where is this folder supposed to go? I put it in program files \ s-frost\ftn95 - but it bombs saying 'unable to c ...