[Info-vax] message communication (VMS <> PC)

[Rob Brown]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 at 20:28 -0500, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

> You can use QIO(W) from your Fortran code.
>
> You can have your Fortran code call some C code
> that uses standard socket code.
>
> You can try and call the standard socket functions
> directly from Fortran.
>
> If you have a C compiler, then go for the second option. By
> far the least complicated.

Perhaps you should consider NETLIB from MadGoat.  It provides all of 
the usual socket functions, but with a more familiar VMS-style 
interface.  I think this was freeware, so look for it in the usual 
places.  I see that NETLIB V2.4 was the FREEWARE_8 CD.

hth


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