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Installing from OpenSolaris live CD goes nowhere 4 95 (7/28/2009 12:54:38 PM) comp.unix.solaris I have three generations of Windows in partitions on one disk (don't ask!) and an ia32 Ubuntu in a partition on another. Was hoping to try OpenSolaris in another partition next to Ubuntu. The live CD works nic... Gordon

Reply-To field default value for Mail under OsX 10.4 &10.5 4 31 (7/23/2008 7:29:44 PM) comp.sys.mac.comm I have a default value for Reply-To for Mail under OsX 10.4 (Tiger). Unfortunately I have forgotten how I did it. :-( I suspect it involved one of the third party extra option setting utilities. Now I am tryi... Gordon

Strange Phenomenon of Cosine Function on Linux x86_64 env 5 39 (2/25/2008 1:14:47 PM) comp.lang.fortran The following was in Numerical Analysis Digest. The test program given is in C but the problem may also apply to Fortran as some Fortrans use the C runtime library extensively. ===============================... Gordon

Select case restrictions 13 45 (12/17/2004 3:10:42 PM) comp.lang.fortran In the fragment select case ( expression ) case ( value ) .... end select the restrictions listed in F95 Handbook are that both expression and value must be of the same discrete type, that is eith... Gordon

NAMELIST Names 1 43 (10/5/2004 8:32:07 PM) comp.lang.fortran An interesting gotcha. No blanks are permitted in "names" in NAMELIST input. So the statement " &LIST A( 1) = 1.0 /" which lines up nicely with " &LIST A(10) = 5.0 /" turns out to not be permitted. The... Gordon

NAG F95 v5 on Mac Os X 3 37 (9/17/2004 12:51:09 AM) comp.lang.fortran I have a demo license for the new NAGWare Fortran 95 ver 5.0 for Mac Os X. It installs and compiles the suggested supplied test program. All with no fuss like other commercial Mac products. However execution f... Gordon

Tom Cole on Google 10 52 (3/4/2004 6:44:55 PM) comp.lang.fortran If one asks Google about "Tom Cole" one finds "US Representative Tom Cole, Oklahoma's 4th District" as the first response as well as a tomcolesucks.com fairly near the top and lots more. I do not think that... g

Single Character Changes 0 40 (11/7/2003 3:08:04 PM) comp.lang.fortran As an example of the possible dangers of single character changes in C there is a nice tale of an attempted backdoor into the Linux kernel at It uses an assignment (=) rather than an equality test (==) in ... g

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Ellipsoid estimation - algorithms? 7 31 (11/12/2009 5:52:52 PM) comp.soft-sys.matlab Hi all. A set of (x,y) data form ellipsoid segments in the sense that a chain of (x,y) points describe parts of an ellipsoid curve. The major and minor axes of the ellipse are oriented arbitrarily in space, a... allnor (8474)

Questions on reuse of FORMAT statements and newer I/O options such as ACCESS='STREAM' 21 41 (12/28/2009 5:06:30 AM) comp.lang.fortran cat >/dev/null ) agree with me. As an example, when I use GFORTRAN and STREAM I/O the DO loop example has a null character (shown as ^@) where I expect a space, some compilers write nothing when a WRITE(3f) wi... urbanjost (37)

Future iPads to have cameras? 57 38 (1/28/2010 6:26:58 PM) comp.sys.mac.comm From CrunchGear via iPhone Alley (link includes photo): The clue was found in the iPad simulator that all developers get when they download the new 3.2 SDK that simulates a real iPad running on their Mac. ... nospam52 (1479)

Macmillan leaves Amazon (bye,bye Kindle) 31 32 (1/31/2010 4:18:34 PM) comp.sys.mac.comm It looks like not only is the iPad going to rule the netbook market, it is also going to render the Kindle an expensive & useless toy. ------------------------ Publishing giant Macmillan said late Saturday ... one9874 (5)

A question on coding style 13 113 (2/4/2010 6:05:29 PM) comp.lang.fortran Hi, when writing code which performs a numerical task such as for example interpolation, would you add the checks on the input data inside the sub itself, or would you demand it to other code to be called ... deltaquattro

Mac OS X and FORTRAN 12 40 (2/7/2010 9:18:16 PM) comp.lang.fortran Hello, I am new to Fortran and am wondering if their are any compilers for Mac OS X? I know specifics on my intended use would be wanted by any answerers, but I have none. Basically I've read that it still b... bsv1138 (1)

direct access with Intel fortran 32 67 (2/7/2010 11:49:30 PM) comp.lang.fortran Hi all, I'm struggling with a problem in trying to perform direct access read/write to a file using Intel 11.1. What I want to do is: 1. Open a data file 2. Write a header block to the file defining the dat... johnpaine1 (10)

Linking 5 42 (2/9/2010 2:23:54 PM) comp.lang.fortran I have this trouble when trying to run a small code I have written. error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _T@8 Debug/Simulated anealing2.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals Error executing l... zetamebruke (3)

Different Views of 3d matrix 11 51 (2/11/2010 6:16:50 PM) comp.lang.fortran Can you associate a pointer or something to a 3d matrix in such a way that access through the pointer gives a 1D view or the 3d matrix? ... jim.mcclean (4)

Interpolation between Bezier curves 7 50 (2/16/2010 4:47:26 PM) comp.lang.fortran Hi, I have two different functions f(x) and g(x) described as plane Bezier curves, say of fourth degree: [f] =[(Pi_x,Pi_y)] [g] =[(Qi_x,Qi_y)] with i=1..5. I would like to compute some samples of a third cur... deltaquattro (202)