Trying to run it from Command Prompt produces the same result as double clicking. -_-;

What do you mean by looking at documentation?

you are running the program without providing it with a source file to compile. If you wrote a file called code.f, and wanted to compile it, you would need to do something like this:

gFortran code.f

you might need some arguments to tell it what to do with it (make an exe, an object file, whatever). I would try it with nothing first, and see what happens.

btw: fortran77 does not use pointers, and because of this, compilers can be smarter at things like figuring out what memory to keep in the CPU registers. This makes it a little faster then C code. Fortran90 and anything newer does. The only real reason to use that, is for people who know Fortran.

When your running a blast analysis program that takes 10 hours to run, every minute counts.

Oh, and there is no advantage to gfortran if I recall. I think it just converts the file into C, and compiles it with gcc (I think), I know that's what g++ is. It takes c++, turns it into C, and then compiles with gcc.

oh, last thing.

If it does work, you might not see anything show up. The prompt might just come back. If you used the example I said above (gfortran code.f), there should be an executable called code.exe in the same directory.

it will name the exe the same thing as the source file.

Now I have another issue. I got it to recognize it, but when I try to compile, I get this:

C:\Program Files\gfortran\bin/ld.exe:soapbox_fix.txt: file format not recognized; treating as linker script
C:\Program Files\gfortran\bin/ld.exe:soapbox_fix.txt:1: syntax error
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status.

I typed in this:
gfortran soapbox_fix.txt -o soapbox.exe

Thanks for your help, by the way.

I would change the extension from .txt to .f and try again.