RATFOR is a structured Fortran preprocessor providing
"IF" - "ELSE", "WHILE", "FOR", "DO", "REPEAT" - "UNTIL", and
"BREAK" and "NEXT" constructs. Also supported are INCLUDE
files, DEFINE for symbolic constants, use of >, <, etc.
instead of .GT., .LT., etc, and the "RETURN VALUE" construct
in functions.

This version of RATFOR is originally from Lawrence
Berkely Labs; the major enhancements in it are:

1. Ability to specify a format statement in READ,
WRITE, ENCODE, and DECODE statements;

2. True line continuation using the underline
character;

3. Production of properly indented upper case Fortran
code with comments passed through;

4. Addition of a /SYMBOLS switch to the command line
to specify reading of the SYMBOLS file;

5. Ability to deal with single quotes on a line.


This version of RATFOR should be used if you want to
compile the RATFOR source to the MTREK multi-user star-trek
also provided on this tape.

To build RATFOR, do

@BUILD

Documentation is in the file RAT4.DOC.


Send comments, problems, etc. to:

William Wood
Intstitute For Cancer Research
7701 Burholme Ave.
Philadelphia, PA. 19111
(215) 728 2760