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Kenneth_Smith



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:45 pm    Post subject: Getting started. Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brilliant! A very welcome contribution.
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LitusSaxonicum



Joined: 23 Aug 2005
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ken,

Fortran is archaic, and useless for graphics and plotting. Clearwin+, on the other hand, is what Fortran has always needed, and still does ...

Eddie
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silverfrost
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Joined: 29 Nov 2006
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a great video. Simple and very clearly presented. Was it taken in a single shot?

Can we use this on this page: https://www.silverfrost.com/59/ftn95/videos.aspx
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Kenneth_Smith



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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Location: Aerospace Valley

PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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Robert



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
this post raises the interesting question ......


Why does it raise that question?
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LitusSaxonicum



Joined: 23 Aug 2005
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

Eddie
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John-Silver



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 !
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LitusSaxonicum



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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