Maintenance Release for FORTRAN PowerStation (123660)

SUMMARY

There has been a maintenance release of FORTRAN PowerStation that fixed several bugs in the first release. To get a list of Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles describing bugs that were fixed, use this query:

PowerStation kbfixlist 1.0a

The following are some of the components that were updated:

The subcomponents of the compiler
The linker
The MS-DOS-extenders
The debugger
Many library functions

MORE INFORMATION

How to Find Out If You Have the Latest Version

The new version was released in March of 1994. The manuals and other documentation, as well as the version displayed by the compiler, continue to show the version as 1.0. There are a number of ways to identify if you are using the latest version:

Approximately half of the components of FORTRAN PowerStation were updated in the new release. They all have dates after March 1993.
The new linker is based on the ones that shipped with FORTRAN PowerStation 32 for Windows NT and Visual C++, 32-bit edition. The old linker version was 2.8, and the new version is 1.0F. To check the version of the linker, type the following at an MS-DOS prompt:
link | more
The version of CVPACK also changed. The old version was 4.21, and the new version is 4.25. To check the version, type the following at an MS-DOS prompt:
cvpack

How to Get and Install the Update

To get the update, call your local Microsoft subsidiary. The update contains a full set of replacement disks (not including Numerical Recipes which did not get updated) that you should install in exactly the same way as the original. We recommend that you delete all components of the original version before installing the new version. Be sure to search the entire disk and delete all of the old components -- particularly every copy of the old MS-DOS-extenders.

Problems Using Components of Both Releases Together

There are two problems that can occur when components of both the first release and the maintenance release are used together:

You may get error DX1410, which is caused by the existence of older versions of the MS-DOS-extenders.
You may get a variety of LINK or CVPACK errors, which are caused by using libraries created with the new version when building programs with the old version.