**** SUMMARY OF CHANGES FOR VERSION 22 OF RSX RATFOR: (NOV 80) BUGS FIXED: PCN 104: USING SPAWN WITHOUT USING FTNSWITCHES PASSED GARBAGE COMMAND LINE TO FTN. PCN 105: FIX TO ICSI SO CMD LINES > 35 CHAR ARE NOT TRUNCATED PCN 106: SUPPRESS UNLABELED (AND THEREFORE WORTHLESS) FTN 'CONTINUE'S. PCN 108: ALL FILE OPENS HAVE BEEN CHANGES TO EXPLICITLY USE A DEFAULT DEVICE OF "SY:" IF USER DOES NOT SPECIFY A DEVICE. THIS CAUSES THE USER'S THEN-CURRENT DEVICE ASSIGNMENTS TO BE USED FOR THE OPEN, RATHER THAN THE ASSIGNMENTS THAT WERE IN EFFECT WHEN RATFOR WAS INSTALLED. PCN 109: FIX A COUPLE OF TYPOS AND GENERALLY IMPROVE ERROR MESSAGES. CHANGES,FEATURES: BASIC RATFOR HAS BEEN COMBINED INTO 2 FILES (RAT1,RAT2). ADD MULTI-LEVEL 'BREAK' AND 'NEXT' STATEMENTS. SEVERAL MACRO ROUTINES AND A COMMAND FILE TO PUT THEM INTO STRLIB.OLB ARE INCLUDED IN THE KIT. USING THESE INSTEAD OF THE STANDARD RATFOR ROUTINES SPEEDS UP THE PREPROCESSOR 1-3% VS. FORTRAN IV; PROBABLY NOT AT ALL VS. F4P. NEW ROUTINES: QUICK BUILD INSTRUCTIONS: (SEE BLDRATFOR.CMD, A RSX11/M INDIRECT COMMAND FILE THAT DOES THE WHOLE THING, FOR MORE INFO). SEQUENCE IS THE SAME FOR BOTH RSX11/M AND /D BUT A COMMAND FILE THAT DOES IT ALL IS AVAILABLE FOR /M. COMMAND FILES SUPPLIED ARE FOR FORTRAN IV V2, BUT ONLY MINOR MODS ARE NEEDED FOR F4P; SEE F4PRATFOR.CMD AS A SAMPLE. COMMAND FILES ASSUME A DUMMY DEVICE NAMED XX0:. ASSIGN THIS WHEREVER YOU WANT BEFORE BUILDING. THE FIRST TIME, RATFOR IS BUILT FROM THE .FTN FILES ON THIS TAPE, AFTER THAT, WITH A WORKING VERSION OF RATFOR, YOU CAN RATFOR THE .RAT FILES TO CONFIGURE THINGS THE WAY YOU WANT IT. FIRST TIME YOU BUILD RATFOR-- MOVE EVERYTING ON THIS TAPE INTO UIC OF YOUR CHOICE. GIVE MCR THE FOLLOWING- FOR @FORRATFOR OR F4P @F4PRATFOR FOR @FORSTRLIB LBR @LBRRATFOR LBR @LBRSTRLIB TKB @TKBRATFOR INS RATFOR AFTER THE FIRST TIME-- ADD : RAT @RATRATFOR BEFORE THE FIRST LINE ABOVE. EDIT TKBRATFOR.CMD FOR RESIDENT LIBRARIES OF YOUR CHOICE. IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS, CALL DAVID P SYKES AMERICAN MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC. 1515 WILSON BLVD ARLINGTON, VA 22209 (703) 841-6086 GOOD LUCK