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Kenneth_Smith
Joined: 18 May 2012 Posts: 697 Location: Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:45 pm Post subject: Getting started. |
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A short video I cobbled together the other day in response to comments about fortran being archaic and useless for windows applications and plotting data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycuI2u31cwk
It may help others reading this who are getting started with Clearwin+ and in particular %pl. I do seem to recall getting to grips with winio@ format codes is a bit of a challenge at the beginning. |
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PaulLaidler Site Admin
Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 7925 Location: Salford, UK
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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Brilliant! A very welcome contribution. |
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LitusSaxonicum
Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 2388 Location: Yateley, Hants, UK
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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Ken,
Fortran is archaic, and useless for graphics and plotting. Clearwin+, on the other hand, is what Fortran has always needed, and still does ...
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silverfrost Site Admin
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 191 Location: Manchester
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Kenneth_Smith
Joined: 18 May 2012 Posts: 697 Location: Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Eddie, as ever you are correct. It was availability of Clearwin+ that renewed my interest in using Fortran a few years ago.
Silverfrost, yes you can link to the video which was taken in a single shot with no editing. There may be be a part two - at a later date as I really need to find things to do to relieve the boredom of our now extended Scottish lockdown. |
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John-Silver
Joined: 30 Jul 2013 Posts: 1520 Location: Aerospace Valley
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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this post raises the interesting question ......
what happens when the Silverfrost 'stalwarts' (Paul & Co, that's you !) pop their clogs into the coding clouds in the sky ?
What will happen to Ftn95 then ?
Is there a plan ?
Is there a young team being 'primed' to (seamlessly ?) take over and carry on the excellent work ?
Questions, questions, questions. _________________ ''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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Robert
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 445 Location: Manchester
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | this post raises the interesting question ...... |
Why does it raise that question? |
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LitusSaxonicum
Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 2388 Location: Yateley, Hants, UK
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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John,
Regardless of Robert's answer, here's mine. Should the team at SF be 'resting', 'stunned', 'pinin' for the fjords', 'shagged out after a long squawk' or whatever, before you (or I ) do, then you carry on using the last version of FTN95 until Microsoft alter Windows until it no longer runs, and then, after your last squawk or whatever, that's it.
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John-Silver
Joined: 30 Jul 2013 Posts: 1520 Location: Aerospace Valley
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Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Robert,
because most of us are not getting was in such an advanced state of any younger, and i remember being taken aback realising that Paul (the mainstay of the forum) is in such an advanced state of ... well, age (I had this image of a 40 year old dynamo !)
maybe it's just my brain over-working having got out of a prolonged stay in hospital in Nvember (COVID ? ho knows ?c ertainly not the doctors where I was!
(I'm STILL trying to work some things out))
Whateer, the question still remains ... relevant.
Eddie's suggestion is 100% valid of course, but a reassurrance that 'the show might) goon' in some form would be reassurring ! _________________ ''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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LitusSaxonicum
Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 2388 Location: Yateley, Hants, UK
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Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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John,
Please get a new keyboard. One with all the letters on it. SCAN have them for under a tenner.
Sorry to hear about your hospital stay. I hope that you are fully recovered. How's the peg leg*, or am I confusing you with another John Silver?
Whatever age Paul is, he's still a dynamo.
Eddie
*Sometimes your posts look like you typed with it! It distracts from the message - and you can't blame Autocorrect.
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