Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!UKANVAX.BITNET!sloane From: sloane@UKANVAX.BITNET (Bob Sloane) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: RE: Re: VMS C reading fortran files Message-ID: <8806061357.AA02287@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 6 Jun 88 13:58:01 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 X-Unparsable-Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1988 14:34:26.17 CDT I agree that C under VMS has problems with fortran carriage control files. First, if the first line of the file starts with a blank, C will return a newline immediatly. This is not how this sequence is supposed to be interpreted. Also, every line in a file will have a Carriage return appended to the end of it. I beleive this is contrary to the way C handles files and records in general. I think that reading a fortran carriage control file should return EXACTLY the same steam of characters as reading a file that was CONVERTed to a variable length, carriage return carriage control file. This is not the way C does it. Bob Sloane University of Kansas Computer Center (913) 864-0444 SLOANE@UKANVAX.BITNET SLOANE@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU