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Ruprecht Machleidt wrote:
> Is there anybody out there who has tried to use the 
> Fortran77 IMSL (International Math and Stat Library
> of Fortran77 routines) on cygwin?
>
> The problem with the IMSL is that it is sold only in compiled
> form (by Visual Numerics and by Absoft). They don't sell
> the sourse codes. If one could get a hand on the source codes,
> the problem would be solved, since one could then simply recompile
> all codes with the g77 compiler on cygwin.
>
> The closest compiled version of IMSL that I have is for
> Intel Architecture and LINUX Release 2.0 and later.
> It's from Absoft and works only in conjunction with
> the Absoft f77 compiler which creates another problem.
> In any case, the compiled version of IMSL for LINUX doesn't
> work on cygwin.
>
> Any advice is appreciate.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rup
>   
By now, you're probably ruing your request for advice. However:

Try R, instead: http://R-Project.org .

If you do try it, you'll wonder how you ever put up with Forebodingtran ;-)

However, YMMV.

IMSL? It Makes Statisticians Loony? ;-)

But I regress (linearly, so to speak),

Lee

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