From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!mhuxm!mhuxv!burl!rcj Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: RE: (sort of) Fortran-to-C translator Article-I.D.: burl.47 Posted: Fri Jan 21 11:10:01 1983 Received: Sat Jan 22 03:53:02 1983 A cry for help!! I need to read a file of contiguous bytes (could be almost any size) into an f77 array (i.e., block of memory; I don't care what data type it is read into as long the bytes remain contiguous -- Guess character would be best). f77 will let me declare a file as sequential and unformatted, but it then ignores the record length descriptor because the file was opened for sequential access. (This is all in the manual). It apparently assumes a record length and expects special BOR and EOR characters which are not, of course, present in the file that I wish to read. I have a temporary solution by having f77 call a C routine (as a subroutine rather than as a function, by the way, interesting the way the parameter passing is done) to do its file opening and reading for it; it works very nicely. One problem: what I am writing is supposed to be in f77 exclusively (I HATE FORTRAN!!!). Any help on how to do this in f77 would be greatly appreciated. Thank RITCHIE & KERNIGHAN for Unix and her Wizards, The MAD Programmer Cor alias: Curtis Jackson ...!floyd!burl!rcj ...!sb1!burl!rcj ...!mhuxv!burl!rcj