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I have had a copy of V2.3 of Absoft's fortran for quite some time now. My memory is bit fuzzy about what's new, but I'll try. The completely redid a lot of the dynamic loading features. Most of this is transparent to the user, but there is one feature, a 'load' statement, that allows you to cause a module to be dynamically loaded on demand, and an 'unload' (I think) statement that undoes that. So if A calls B, B calls C, and in fact lots of other things call C as well, you might choose to force C to remain loaded while other routines (like B) are broughh into memory as required. [A They added a new compiler option '*' (a star) that forces all temporary files into ram. That can really speed up compilation if you are disk-based. There are new demo programs that show how to access lots of the Amiga specific kinds of things, like opening windows, etc. There have been several fixes to bugs in the interface routines (i.e., in the include files). I don't know much about any bug fixes to the straight Fortran stuff — I really never found too many of those kinds of bugs. (but when I did, I sure let them know about it). I know they changed the equivalence processor, and eliminated some bugs there. I won't presume to judge whether these changes warrant the $50 upgrade fee. I am quite happy with the product, and would personally buy it just to keep Absoft interested in the Amiga.