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From: pjw@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: F77 i/o compatible with assembly i/o help?
Message-ID: <6492@alice.uUCp>
Date: Sun, 21-Dec-86 16:47:25 EST
Article-I.D.: alice.6492
Posted: Sun Dec 21 16:47:25 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Dec-86 22:36:24 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
Lines: 7
Keywords: i/o sequential-files
Summary: f77 unformatted i/o always contains goo



fortran unformatted output has to contain some kind of record boundaries
so BACKSPACE works.  The most likely way to write a binary file from
some other language and read it using fortran is to write fixed length records
and use f77 direct i/o.  (fortran's not a language that cooperates well
with anything else)