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stfark1
Joined: 02 Sep 2008 Posts: 211
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 1:46 am Post subject: Experimental Plato |
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The 64 bit, experimental Plato vers 5.+ was available in dropbox, need to download again, anyone know what the new URL is for this software? Tried to access from a previous recommendation but when I tried to access, said the URL cannot be found, was moved? Sid Kraft |
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mecej4
Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 1895
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PaulLaidler Site Admin
Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 7938 Location: Salford, UK
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 6:17 am Post subject: |
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Sid
Regarding this and your other post that is similar, I suspect that you may not understand what Plato is.
Plato.exe is a text editor for writing Fortran programs. When it comes to compiling and linking your program, you need other applications FTN95.exe and SLINK.exe etc. These can be accessed from Plato but are not built into Plato. |
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mecej4
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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From some of Sid's earlier posts in the PLATO forum, I suspected that he thought PLATO was a self-contained IDE with a built-in compiler.
In fact, one may get by with that assumption as long as the programs are small and do not depend on linking with libraries, modules, DLLs, etc.
In the Intel Fortran forum I have seen users similarly referring to Visual Studio as the Fortran and C compiler.
Packaging can be deceptive! |
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stfark1
Joined: 02 Sep 2008 Posts: 211
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:49 pm Post subject: Experimental Plato |
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Downloaded Plato Vers 5.+, built a project with my Fortran subroutines, tried to compile with the system set for 64 bit, got the error message FTN95 or FTN77 must be on the path??? How do I assure this? Sid Kraft |
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mecej4
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2020 2:38 am Post subject: |
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Do you have the FTN95 package installed? If so, which version? Where?
In the folder containing PLATO.EXE (or PLATO32.EXE, whichever one you use), do you see the files FTN95.EXE, SLINK.EXE, SALFLIBC.DLL, etc.? |
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Robert
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 449 Location: Manchester
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2020 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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Lots of people refer to 'plato' as the compiler. Quite a few refer to 'silverfrost' as the compiler too... |
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John-Silver
Joined: 30 Jul 2013 Posts: 1520 Location: Aerospace Valley
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2020 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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it would be excellent if SF could come up with a detiled FLOWCHART showin the relationships/interactions of all the component programs.
It might clear up a lot of understandable mis-conceptions. _________________ ''Computers (HAL and MARVIN excepted) are incredibly rigid. They question nothing. Especially input data.Human beings are incredibly trusting of computers and don't check input data. Together cocking up even the simplest calculation ... " |
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