Compaq (DEC) Alpha chip cpu + Linux operating system are now spported
in two ways.

1) If you have True64 unix (digital unix), it is recomended to complile
   the library and executables there.  The executables can run on Alpha
   Linux, provided that you have to rebuild the kernel of the Alpha Linux
   to include the ECOFF support.  How to do it will be found on the Web faq.     
   For example, http://www.v-t.co.jp/support/faq/data/linux/linux00032.html.
 
   In Cosmos,  
   You have to use site.configTrue64orAlphaLinux as the site.config.

   The executable can run on both True64 and Alpha Linux	
2) If you have no True64 unix system, you have to down load compaq
   Fortran from,  
       http://www.digital.com/fortran/linux/te-download_.html
   
   In this case, you have to use site.configCF_AlphaLinux as the
    site.config in Cosmos.

   Note:  The comilation speed is very very very slow.
         /lib/cpp says that the odd number of ' or " in any one
         line is error. So we disregarded such errors.
    At my environment, after introducing ECOFF kernel support,
    the cosmos executable became not runable; at reboot time
    the system issues  repeated (infinite ?) messages about
    aligment error or something like until control_c is used.

   
            

 