I have uploaded the OS/2 2.x recompile of Ftnchek, 2.7 to the usual sites:

ftp-os2.cdrom.com: (CD-ROM)

now:        /os2/incoming/fchek270.zip
move to:    /os2/dev32/fchek270.zip
supersedes: /os2/dev32/fchek261.zip

ftp-os2.nmsu.edu  (HOBBES)

now:        /incoming/fchek270.zip
move to:    /os2/dev32/fchek270.zip
supersedes: /os2/dev32/fchek261.zip

'Supersedes' means here: is the next version. I am not the
porter of fchek261.zip, which has some nice treats (it can run w/o
emx; I still haven't found the time to learn how to do that).
I would *not* remove it from these sites!

ftnchek is a free Fortran syntax checker (some say, similar to
a commercial product called FLINT, which I don't know). It allows
to catch all kinds of problems Fortran is (in)famouse for: unassigned
variables, type casts, too long lines, wrong number / type of arguments
in calles to functions/subroutines etc. It can catch lots of problems
many Fortran compilers seem to fail finding.
To cut it short, it helps do what a normal Pascal compiler would do 
by itself on Pascal, for those of us who (still) need to use Fortran.

The only modifications I have made to the original distribution before
recompiling with gcc 2.7.2 / emx09b are:

a) Included a makefile for os/2, called 'makefile.os2' (which is identical
   to the included makefile). 

   This file defines 'gcc' as the compiler and also sets the LARGE_MACHINE
   option to allow for more table space for large programmes. (If that
   is not enough, read the readme file and try with the DYNAMIC option,
   or so. I haven't tried it since I never ran out of space even in the
   default setting, but someone complained in the fortran news group
   about needing LARGE). Also, it adds a TARGET with EXE extension, and
   specifies the object files to be stripped to save some space.

b) Included a binary, which needs the 'emx09b' runtime system to work.
   This can be found as emxrt.zip on many ftp sites, including 
   hobbes (ftp-os2.nmsu.edu) and cdrom (ftp-os2.cdrom.com). I compiled
   it with gcc 2.7.2 / emx09b + emxfix03.


That's it. Have fun.            Stefan A. Deutscher ,  23-Mar-1996

                          sad@utk.edu / stefand@elphy.irz.hu-berlin.de