Ultrix `fort' vs BSD `f77'

[kuo at skatter.UUCP]

In article <296 at hscfvax.UUCP>, pavlov at hscfvax.UUCP (840033 at G.Pavlov) writes:
>    A "few bugs" may be an understatement.  Has anyone had any positive exper-
>    iences getting help with these from DEC ??
> 

We started running into "undesirable features" almost the first day we
installed fort on our 785. If I recall correctly, our system manager did
not get much of a response from the DEC people. One other thing, try to
cat your fort-compiled execuatble. The first 512-bytes or so is DEC's
darn copyright notice! I don't appreciate this as it makes the file bigger
than it needs to be.