Stefan Evert wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, SIMONS, DON wrote:
>
> > yourself. Also, there might even be some machine-translated
> > c-versions out there, although I haven't been keeping track of that.
> > But if there are, you could make the same sort of change in the
> > c-source and recompile.
>
> No, unfortunately you can't. I know because I tried to make some of the
> constants (I think 'nm' had been asked for at that time) configurable in
> the Unix version. 'f2c' translates all uses of constants in the source
> code into literal numbers, so there's no way of changing them in the C
> source.
>
The 'fort77' front end to 'f2c' handles the last few PMX releases
with no need for retouching (some previous ones had COMMON block
alignment problems).
Dirk
