A comment from another attempt about compiling NASTRAN-95:
"I had to fix a number of compile errors to get it to link. When I ran it, I got a number of run-time errors (mostly buffer overruns or mis-matches) and didn't get a good feeling on it. It seemed to require an inordinate number of input and configuration files which had little or no documentation on them. I found some incomplete sets of test cases but never enough to run the program far enough to get any meaningful results. It seemed that the risk/reward tradeoff of trying to reverse-engineer it just wasn't worth it."
"I had to fix a number of compile errors to get it to link. When I ran it, I got a number of run-time errors (mostly buffer overruns or mis-matches) and didn't get a good feeling on it. It seemed to require an inordinate number of input and configuration files which had little or no documentation on them. I found some incomplete sets of test cases but never enough to run the program far enough to get any meaningful results. It seemed that the risk/reward tradeoff of trying to reverse-engineer it just wasn't worth it."