ratfor (ratfor preprocessor for fortran77) Ratfor is short for Rational Fortran. If you are not familiar with Ratfor, SEP has a good page about it here: https://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/prof/pvi/rat/paper_html/node1.html ...and Brian W. Kernighan's paper on the language can be found here: http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/research/repro/ratfor.pdf Ratfor was used in the classic Software Tools text by Kernighan and Plauger, published by Addison and Wesley. Ratfor translates Rational Fortran to Fortran-77, which can then be compiled with a F77 compiler such as GNU Fortran. This Linux Ratfor is derived from the public domain ratfor version 1.0 by Oz, Ken Yap, W. Bauske (IBM), and SEP (http://sepwww.stanford.edu). It is still in the public domain. To compile and run a ratfor program: ratfor -o prog.f prog.r f77 -o prog prog.f ./prog There are some sample/test programs in "/usr/doc/ratfor-$VERSION/tests".