On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 10:31:03PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote:
> Steve Kargl wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:10:19PM -0500, Justin Thomas wrote:
> >>I am a big fan of the GNU project and would really like to use
> >>gfortran for Fortran development work on my 64-bit AMD Opteron machine
> >>running Red Hat Linux.  I cannot find any documentation on your
> >>website at all, not even so much as a man page or a "Get Started"
> >>guide.
> >
> >You could not have looked too hard for documentation.  The menu
> >on the left at gcc.gnu.org has a "Documentation" section.  In
> >that section you will find a link named "Manual", which leads to
> >
> >http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/
> 
> I'm going to have to debate that "could not have looked too hard" 
> comment, Steve.  I was just looking at the gfortran home page (which is, 
> as far as I can tell, officially at gcc.gnu.org/fortran), and it doesn't 
> have any links to documentation at all, nor any indication that any 
> gfortran documentation can be found by going to the main gcc.gnu.org page.

Like I said "could not have looked too hard".  So, you don't find
a link to a gfortran manual page from gcc.gnu.org/fortran.  A reasonable
person would back up to the home page and read the info there.

> I think this should be corrected, probably by a "Documentation" section 
> after the "Binaries" section.

This is probably a good idea.  Fortunately, the sources to the 
webpages are available.  I look forward to your patch.

-- 
Steve

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