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Kenneth_Smith · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:45 pm Post subject: Getting started.

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.

PaulLaidler · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:51 pm Post subject:

Brilliant! A very welcome contribution.

LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 2:01 pm Post subject:

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

silverfrost · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 2:24 pm Post subject:

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

Kenneth_Smith · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 6:05 pm Post subject:

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.

Robert · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 457 Location: Manchester

LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:06 pm Post subject:

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

LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 7:07 pm Post subject:

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.

E