On-line Fortran Language References

• Fortran 77... the best?
• Fortran 77... a bit lengthy?
• May be useful too (see especially the link to "G77 Fortran Language Documentation")

Procedure to Write and Execute a Fortran Program

• Assuming you have an AICT account, you ought to be able to log in under EA_science
• START > Programs > Fortran-G95 > Fortran-G95 ... will open a Command Window (CMD)
• START > Programs > Fortran-G95 > Documentation ... will open Fortran Help
• At the prompt C:\TEMP> in the CMD window type N: to go to your own permanent storage area
• If you wish, at the prompt N:\> create a subdirectory, eg. N:\>mkdir eas471
• If you wish, change directory to a subdirectory, eg. N:\>cd eas471

• Open an editor and write your program. Perhaps the most suitable is the Matlab editor
  • START > Programs > MATLAB > R2006b > M-file Editor

  • Enter your program and save with your own choice of filename, eg. myfile.f90
  • Here is a sample program using Fortran77: jdwjunk.for
  • Here is a sample program using Fortran90: example.f90
  • If you use Notepad or Wordpad, save as ascii - unfortunately both these editors insist on adding a .txt extension, therefore after saving go into your file manager and chop off the extra extension, eg. myfile.f90.txt -> myfile.f90
  • You are ready to compile and execute

• At the command prompt N:\eas471\> enter

  g95 -o myfile.exe myfile.f90

  This compiles and builds the executable file, that you have chosen to name myfile.exe

• Execute your program, eg.

  N:\eas471\>myfile

• Probably it won't do what you want! Go back in the editor and edit your file and recompile...

Last Modified: 11 Jan., 2007