migration from MS Powerstation4 to Intel Fortran

[prandf]

I have a need to go to Integer*8 (64 bit) and good old powerstation does not have this.

Powerstation was taken over? bu Compaq (HP) and there is supposed to be a migration path to the intel compiler.

Does anyone have any experience in porting from Powerstation to Intel compiler.

I am using Visula Studio and MS Source Safe.

regards

Peter Taylor

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Peter,

Welcome to the Intel forum.

PowerStation was not exactly "taken over" by Compaq. Rather, DEC (later Compaq) brought out their own product, Digital Visual Fortran, with Microsoft's cooperation and Microsoft then retired Fortran PowerStation. Digital Visual Fortran, and its successors Compaq Visual Fortran and Intel Visual Fortran, are highly compatible with PowerStation applications, though not all FPS syntax and options are supported.

Many people have made this transition, though most started it some years ago, as PowerStation has been off the market for more than 10 years. The migration path at this point is to purchase Intel Visual Fortran, create a new project in the development environment (VS2005, which is somewhat different-looking than the one in FPS), add your sources, and build. You will not be able to open a FPS project with Intel Visual Fortran.

We have a white paper on migrating from Compaq Visual Fortran which may also be of interest to you.

If you have further questions, feel free to ask.