Terry, At 06:07 28-07-2000 -0600, you wrote: >We are planning to move our IBM mainframe Fortran programs to PCs using Microsoft windows. I occasionally moved some software from VS Fortran to Fortran 90, but have no experience with panels. Maybe it's worth while to write Windows equivalents for them. >I need to replace the mainframe frond-end IBM DMS panels with PC GUI/forms. >Also I'll need to generate XY plots. We use IBM GDDM and ADMCHART on the mainframe. >And we have a lot of REXX scripts that will need replaced. As another member pointed out there is/are (free) REXX implementatitions for PC. >Also what about the accuracy of the Fortran computed values. IBM Reals being hexadecimal, the accuracy and range will certainly be different. >We currently use IBM Fortran on a IBM VM mainframe and want to go to Compaq Visual Fortran. > >Does anyone have experience with porting Fortran from a mainframe to a PC. >Any suggestions on packages to use for front-ending and back-ending the Fortran codes ? > Wish you luck... -- Meilleures Salutations, Kindest Regards, /--- Jan van Oosterwijk Computing Centre Delft University of Technology Postbus 354 2600 AJ Delft Netherlands / Pays-Bas mailto:[log in to unmask] Phone: +31 15 278 50 17 Fax: +31 15 278 37 87 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%