newbie to fortran - Help

[samsampton]

Good day Everybody and marry Christmas,
I'm trying to use gcc to extract data from a binary file and get this error:
# gcc -a read_v2.1_month_swap.f
gcc: error trying to exec 'f951': execvp: No such file or directory

I'm new fortran user any helps would be appreciated.
Thanks a lot.

[samsampton]

More info about this post:
I'm trying to comile this file (which is I beleive a c++ file) and I think that the righnt command is g++, someone with more expertise can give the command to use Plz:
the file is at:

www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gpcp/gpcp-v2.1/software/read_v2.1_climo.f

Thanks a lot.

[petsquirid]

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