1 Introduction

SPT is an inhomogeneous set of software tools designed to assist in the conversion of code from one operating system to another (principally from VMS to UNIX and vice-versa, and between different flavours of UNIX).

The tools are:

FORCONV

Converts file name specifications in Fortran INCLUDE statements and “escapes” backslash characters. The output file on VMS is also in Stream_lf format so can be read on a UNIX system using NFS.

SOFTLINK

Manages the creation and removal of soft links on Unix systems. These soft links will generally point to Fortran INCLUDE files, thereby providing a machine-independent way of writing INCLUDE statements.