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From: "Charles D. Russell" <worwor@bellsouth.net>
Subject: life expectancy of gcc 3.x
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Would anybody venture an educated guess how much longer gcc 3.x (and 
hence g77) will be supported by cygwin?  gfortran does not seem to offer 
as many options as g77 for managing archaic code (e.g. from netlib).