ANN: Database & Spreadsheet Connectivity for Fortran

From: Marco A. Garcia <mgarcia_at_canaimasoft.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 02:13:32 -0700
Message-ID: <907060494.458540_at_news1.ucsd.edu>

f90SQL is a library of functions and subroutines that work as an interface between your Fortran programs and Microsoft Windows Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) API. f90SQL offers a convenient and familiar way to directly read and write data from your Fortran programs to many applications formats. The list below includes a few of the most common formats, but your options are basically unlimited. As long as the application offers an ODBC interface to its data files (almost all DBMS in the market today do), you can use f90SQL to read/write data to the native application's format directly from your Fortran programs.

Common Application Formats Accessible Through f90SQL:

• Excel
• Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets
• Microsoft Access
• FoxPro
• Paradox
• Oracle
• Ingres
• Informix
• Microsoft SQL-server
• Progress
• Btrieve
• ADABAS D
• SQLBase
• DB2
• Sybase, and
• Any application format that offers an ODBC interface to its data files

Key Benefits:

• Use SQL language to access application data, regardless of the native format of the data.
• f90SQL offers an interface to all standard ODBC 3.5 API functions.
• Your Fortran programs get direct access to the application's data. No more clumsy, time consuming, error prone extractions to ASCII files or importing data generated from your programs into the application.
• f90SQL subroutines use the familiar Fortran protocol to receive and return parameters. You do not have to deal with the C-style calling convention of DLLs and the ODBC-API or with pointers.
• f90SQL is supported by Canaima Software, a consulting company with ample experience in scientific and database programming.

Supported Compilers:

• Digital Visual Fortran (ver. 5.0 and 6.0)
• Absoft Pro-Fortran (ver. 5.0 and 6.0) (Available September 30/1998)

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows 95/98
• Windows NT

Pricing:

Currently only the beta of the commercial version (f90SQL-pro) is available. You can download and test it for free at http://www.canaimasoft.com/f90sql. As soon as the beta-testing is over, f90SQL will be distributed in two versions:
f90SQL-light, free for academic and personal use, and f90SQL-pro for development and commercial users. The price of f90SQL-pro is $120 (plus S&H).

For further information, please contact Canaima Software at sales_at_canaimasoft.com or visit our web page at www.canaimasoft.com

Marco A. Garcia
Canaima Software
e-mail: mgarcia_at_canaimasoft.com
http://www.canaimasoft.com Received on Tue Sep 29 1998 - 11:13:32 CEST