Back to ROBFIT and the Fortran for a while!

So have agreed with Bob that posting the code on GITHUB is a good idea. However, getting a version of the code off the floppy disc's proved to be an exercise in itself! Involving clearing the loft to try and find an old machine that could read the 3 1/4 disc's. Found the machine and a miracle occurred it fired up without any trouble - the drive worked - and I managed to copy a total or 30 discs with various versions onto a modern disc drive. Result!

On a roll I selected the most recent version - copied it onto the machine I am typing this on (a Toshiba Satellite laptop - conveniently named for analysing Supernova data I thought) - the found a 'read.me' file - another result! Can't for the life of me remember writing any of this build stuff - maybe Bob did it ;)

Tried to follow the instructions, which are;

"Welcome to Robfit


Book reference "The Theory and Operation of Spectral Analysis
                       Using ROBFIT". AIP 1991 ISBN 0-88318-941-0
        Robert L. Coldwell and Gary J. Bamford Univ. of Fla
             ROBFIT@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU


The disks have a mk...hd.bat file in the root directory
First insert Essential and run MKESSHD.BAT
This creates the robfit directory and various subdirectories
with a set of test cases in them.
   Next insert the appropriate coproexe or nocoproexe disk
(depending on whether you do or do not have a coprocessor)
and enter the command RUNABLE.BAT.  This creates the subdirectory
runable under robfit on the hard disk.  Enter this subdirectory and
enter the command ROBFIT and read the book.  The test cases are labelled
ZTCASE1.SP (the data file) through ZTCASE8.SP (supernova data).
It is supposed to be obvious what to do next.  (...dis for display),
(...fit to fit).

.................."

Er - nope - that didn't happen. Guess after 20 years things have changed. I am blaming Bob for not making it future proof ;))

So the plan now is to take the Fortran files one by one and try and figure out how to re-compile them for new machines.

I am enjoying this aren't I??